{"title":"Daniel Bensaïd’s Moments of History before Althusser’s Crooked Smile","authors":"D. Roso","doi":"10.1080/08935696.2023.2215143","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Two distinct traditions of French Marxism have deconstructed a linear representation of history: Louis Althusser and his circle formed around Reading “Capital” and Daniel Bensaïd’s own reading of Marx, inspired by Trotskyist thought. This essay examines the confrontation between Althusser’s and Bensaïd’s theories of plural temporality to demonstrate their points of agreement and disagreement, out of which a concrete theory of history becomes discernible. The essay does not simply reiterate Bensaïd’s critique of Althusser but explores the two theorists in their complexity to show that many unresolved problems of Marxism remain.","PeriodicalId":45610,"journal":{"name":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Rethinking Marxism-A Journal of Economics Culture & Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2023.2215143","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Two distinct traditions of French Marxism have deconstructed a linear representation of history: Louis Althusser and his circle formed around Reading “Capital” and Daniel Bensaïd’s own reading of Marx, inspired by Trotskyist thought. This essay examines the confrontation between Althusser’s and Bensaïd’s theories of plural temporality to demonstrate their points of agreement and disagreement, out of which a concrete theory of history becomes discernible. The essay does not simply reiterate Bensaïd’s critique of Althusser but explores the two theorists in their complexity to show that many unresolved problems of Marxism remain.