Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2139140
Derek R. Ford, Collin L. Chambers
While pedagogies emanating from the Marxist tradition have been proposed and debated, this essay argues that Marx had clear pedagogical logics of his own that he laid out by articulating the differences between inquiry and presentation or, said differently, between studying and learning. This essay presents these logics as they play out in Marx’s writing and research, focusing particularly on the Grundrisse notebooks and the first volume of Capital, each of which accord different primacy to inquiry and presentation. To show the political logics of Marx’s pedagogies in practice, the essay draws from Lenin’s conception of the Communist Party as an educational form tasked precisely with navigating between Marx’s pedagogies. A case study follows, of the historical and contemporary experiences of the Chinese Communist Party as it has directed and yielded to Marx’s pedagogies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2144068
I. L. Tian
Recent publicity of Chinese feminist activism highlights the urgency for scholarly attention to historically and contextually grounded knowledge about socialism and feminism. This essay explores current Chinese feminism as a contentious and geopolitically mediated subject, introducing critical socialist feminism within the Chinese feminist theorizing that has emerged in the last decade. Specifically, the essay discusses how several scholars reexamine gender, socialist legacy, and community-based socialism and argues that this new terrain of Chinese feminist theory should be read critically while paying attention to recent theoretical developments in East Asia. Grounded in the context of Chinese state capitalism, critical socialist feminism holds potential to challenge certain Eurocentric tendencies in the transnational flow of socialist feminism.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2139079
F. Rüdiger, Otávio Daros
Marxist thinking gained political strength in Brazil with the creation of the Brazilian Communist Party in 1922, but it was only in the 1980s that its influence in the academic field became noteworthy. This article aims to reconstruct and analyze the origins and the main ideas related to its intervention in the academic theorization of journalism. Besides the contribution of the pioneer Nelson Werneck Sodré (“the press as a means of political struggle”), we discuss the theses of Perseu Abramo (“journalism as a means of manipulation”), Ciro Marcondes Filho (“news as commodity”) and Adelmo Genro Filho (“journalism as a form of knowledge”). Finally, we question whether the perspectives opened up by the pioneers and their successors still show enough intellectual energy to think critically about journalism in times of interactive digital media.
随着1922年巴西共产党的成立，马克思主义思想在巴西获得了政治力量，但直到20世纪80年代，它在学术领域的影响力才变得引人注目。本文旨在重构和分析其介入新闻学理论化的渊源和主要思想。除了先驱Nelson Werneck Sodré（“新闻作为政治斗争的手段”）的贡献外，我们还讨论了Perseu Abramo（“新闻是一种操纵手段”）、Ciro Marcondes Filho（“新闻商品”）和Ademo Genro Filho（《新闻作为一种知识形式》）的论文。最后，我们质疑先驱及其继任者所开辟的视角是否仍然显示出足够的智力能量，可以在互动数字媒体时代批判性地思考新闻业。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2139141
Mike Alewitz
The City at the Crossroads of History was commissioned for the Puffin Gallery of Social Activism, Museum of the City of New York. Despite the unanimous approval by the museum’s own committee of leading academics and intellectuals, it was censored on political grounds by the museum and the Puffin Foundation. Composed of four panels, the 16’x21’ mural is now on display at Red Square, New London, CT. The mural gives visual expression to the great spirit of social activism in New York City, recognizing the collective contribution of millions of people in the ongoing struggle for social and economic justice—a dynamic, ever-present, interrelated social process. Revolutionary struggle is now an essential element of life – critical for the very survival of our species. Complete mural and more information can be found at https://chng.it/zPzVBSKy.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2144071
F. Mami
Cedric Robinson’s An Anthropology of Marxism was first published in 2001, but a second edition appeared in 2019 with a new preface from celebrity feminist scholar Avery F. Gordon and a new foreword by filmmaker and academic H. L. T. Quan. This new edition, which understandably pays tribute to the recently deceased author, disputes the idea that Karl Marx’s oeuvre marks the advent of socialism. Rather, Robinson concluded that Marxism rather has its roots in socialism and that socialism has galvanized the oppressed—slaves, peasants, women, workers, the unemployed—throughout the ages against manifold oppressors. The book traces Marxism to the socialist drive of Christianity but argues that the socialist component is not culture specific. While reducing Marx’s thinking to a discourse on economics indicates that Robinson underestimated Marx’s subversive clarity, ultimately, for Robinson, only socialism, not Marxism, can provide a humanist tool for universal freedom.
塞德里克·罗宾逊的《马克思主义人类学》于2001年首次出版，但第二版于2019年出版，由著名女权主义学者艾弗里·f·戈登(Avery F. Gordon)为其撰写了新的序言，由电影制作人和学者全h·l·t·为其撰写了新的前言。可以理解的是，这个新版本是对这位最近去世的作家的致敬，它对卡尔·马克思的全部作品标志着社会主义到来的观点提出了质疑。罗宾逊的结论是，马克思主义的根源在于社会主义，而社会主义激励着被压迫者——奴隶、农民、妇女、工人、失业者——世世代代反抗形形色色的压迫者。这本书将马克思主义追溯到基督教的社会主义驱动，但认为社会主义成分不是文化特有的。虽然将马克思的思想简化为经济学的论述表明鲁滨逊低估了马克思颠覆性的明确性，但最终，对鲁滨逊来说，只有社会主义，而不是马克思主义，才能为普遍自由提供人文主义的工具。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2139077
R. Latham
Although transnational collective anticapitalist action is the Left’s historical instinct, past efforts at collaboration failed at building a comprehensive, inclusive, and sustainable international. Reflecting on internationalism’s history, this essay challenges assumptions and approaches to internationalism and unity. History suggests common aims and solidarity are insufficient, especially when the pursuit of collaboration from distinct positions leads to conflict. Creating a more institutionalized context for unity promises a more enduring collaboration. A revitalized Left institutionalism is needed. It should endeavor to build institutions especially for mediation (a practice underemphasized in the Left’s historical tradition), such as an international conflict-adjudicating “workers and peoples” tribunal. Institutions like a tribunal composed of rank-and-file workers could be put at the center of international socialism along with leaders and full-time activists, constituting a coactive power that would be part of an expanded Left institutional sphere aimed at creating an anticapitalist international system within the existing international system.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2144070
A. Chakrabarti
Taking off from a class-focused perspective, Satyaki Roy's book, Contours of Value Capital: India’s Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development, dissects the global network of value added by labor power during production to reveal a process of value capture by global capitalists in the Global North. Thus, even when sites of production may have moved to the South, the surplus value being performed continues to be appropriated and distributed primarily by capitalists in the North. Just as labor power and the working class has undergone change, so has the physiognomy of capital and capitalists, and thus the importance of understanding the exploitative organization of surplus value in its overdetermined condition with power, property, the market, finance, the state and its laws, and so on, within any value chain, from within global production networks, and the value capture that occurs through this structure.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2144069
Pablo Vila, Matthew T. Ford, Edward Avery-Natale
This essay proposes an approach to thinking and analyzing identification processes through the application of recent theoretical developments linked to the work of Deleuze and Guattari—specifically the concept of “assemblage”—in conjunction with Althusser’s concept of interpellation. The latter serves as a point of departure as the essay first summarizes Althusser’s argument to highlight the complexity of the original interpellation proposal. The essay then traces the trajectory of the assemblage concept through varying critiques and modifications over the past several decades, above all that advanced by Won Choi. The essay concludes by discussing the idea of “identitarian articulations” as a potential approach for using interpellation to understand processes of identification.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2111960
Saswat Samay Das, Deepak Mathew
The rise of right-wing authoritarianism in India in the guise of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has incapacitated the Indian Left and created a political cul-de-sac of majoritarian populism to which the liberal left has no answers. Ajay Gudavarthy’s India after Modi: Populism and the Right not only examines why the Right prefers populist politics and how it effectively uses populism to further its divisive agenda but also provides a new cartography for political action and alliances between the Indian Left and minoritarian subaltern groups. Gudavarthy argues that such a leftist alliance is a prerequisite for reconstructing a philosophy of secularism that can derail the right-wing populist juggernaut in India.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2111954
D. Brennan
Capitalist production and distribution processes change over time. Despite these changes, many heterodox theorists still view the economy largely in terms of profit-led or investment-led dynamics, which they attribute to the insights of Karl Marx and Michał Kalecki. This essay argues that these thinkers’ theoretical perspectives were more flexible than today’s theorists, adaptable to a changing capitalism. Marx and Kalecki explicitly entertained theoretical space not just for investment decisions but also for “capitalists’ consumption” and “workers’ savings,” broad categories that also participate in capitalism’s conditions of existence. By exploring this theoretical direction in the work of both Marx and Kalecki, by understanding these categories theoretically, and by tracking how these categories have changed empirically over time, this essay newly appreciates Marx’s and Kalecki’s theoretical contributions, enhancing our understanding of capitalism’s changes over the last fifty years.
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