Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2026754
M. Chehonadskih
The translation of Alexander Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism into English may be considered either belated or well timed. First crafted between 1904 and 1906, its three volumes were produced for and by the revolution in Russia, constituting what may be considered a manifesto of heretical tendencies in Marxism, uniting a generation against Plekhanov’s orthodoxy; a collection of essays; or an ambitious philosophical treatise. Empiriomonism expresses a style of 1905 revolutionary thought but has philosophically outlived the urgencies and contexts of its publication. This review essay examines Bogdanov’s contribution as an attempt to unite empiricism and Marxism, as a theory of technics and of the mutually constituted ideological organization of social forms, and as a relevant philosophical tool for engaging with speculative, political, and ecological issues abandoned by the Marxist canon.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1999764
Sebastián Ronderos, Daniel Marín-López
This essay explores the meaning and significance of the Colombian peace agreements reached by Juan Manuel Santos’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC-EP) on 24 November 2016 vis-à-vis a significant organizational shift within the national armed conflict and territorial dispute. By conducting a critical exposition of the armed conflict in Colombia, this essay contributes to the debate surrounding the (ex-)guerrillas’ demobilization and disarmament, highlighting the relevance of ideology for analyzing changes in the dynamics of violence in the so-called postconflict.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972669
Eren Kozluca
Departing from an epistemological investigation into the limitations of the conjoined Althusserian problematic of concrete analysis and aleatory materialism, this essay aims to circumscribe the original features and possible present contributions of Robert Linhart's Marxism, arguing that, thanks to an enriched “philosophical conception of productive labor” preoccupied with a materialist understanding of the categories of finitude and normativity, Linhart's texts of the late 1970s and early 1980s offer fresh insights into the question of how subjective experiences, singularly aleatory cases, and properly experimental setups should be articulated. The essay claims that Linhart's Marxism displays the characteristics of an original post-Althusserian enterprise whose ultimate relevance lies in its interest in the adequate extension, operationalization, and rectification of concepts involved in Marxian social research.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972672
Yahya M. Madra
Despite the fact that psychoanalytical concepts are absent in Yahya M. Madra’s Late Neoclassical Economics, the three commentaries on the book, by Chakrabarti, Glynos, and Primrose, read the text in a certain psychoanalytical key, and for good reason. Their readings demonstrate that a number of unnamed psychoanalytical models silently informed the discourse analysis mobilized throughout the text. Reading late neoclassical economics as an internally differentiated field of defense formations against contradictions, antagonisms, and conflicts that arise from the constitutive destructuredness of the economy, this response essay by Yahya M. Madra explores the applicability of the key psychoanalytical concepts of negation (repression, foreclosure, disavowal) for a discourse analysis of economic models.
尽管Yahya M. Madra的《晚期新古典经济学》中缺少精神分析的概念，但Chakrabarti、Glynos和Primrose对这本书的三篇评论，以某种精神分析的方式阅读了这本书，这是有充分理由的。他们的阅读表明，许多未命名的精神分析模型无声地通知了整个文本动员的话语分析。叶海亚·m·马德拉(Yahya M. Madra)的这篇回应文章将晚期新古典经济学视为一个内部分化的领域，该领域针对经济的结构性解构所产生的矛盾、对抗和冲突进行防御，探讨了精神分析中关键的否定概念(压抑、丧失抵押品赎回权、否认)在经济模型话语分析中的适用性。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972673
Salma Shamel
This interview explores Fadi A. Bardawil’s general intellectual trajectory and the philosophical and methodological theses in his recently published book Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation. The interview explores themes such as the withdrawal from political militancy, the relationship between theory and praxis, the tension between immanent and external forms of critique, and the paradoxes of emancipation, among others. Bardawil insists on an understanding of Arab Marxism that neither takes its subject for granted nor condemns those who exit its tradition. The interview is prefaced by a short introductory book review that situates the themes of the ensuing discussion.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972668
Dimitris Papafotiou, Panagiotis Sotiris
In the 1960s and 1970s, both Robert Linhart and Charles Bettelheim turned to assessing the Soviet New Economic Policy as part of their attempts to theorize a transition to socialism. This essay offers a critical reading of Robert Linhart’s contributions on this subject and compares his approach with Charles Bettelheim’s own positions, including their dialogue that appeared in the journal Communisme in 1977. The essay suggests that a return to these debates is important for any attempt to theorize socialist transition.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972671
Jason Glynos
Using neoclassical thought as his entry point, Yahya M. Madra offers a vital prolegomenon to a recalibrated critical political economy. Madra’s reinterpretation of the economic field pivots around what he calls the theoretical-humanist problematic, suggesting that an ontologically inflected recharacterization of economic thought is essential to any serious development of progressive alternatives to dominant mainstream forms of political economy. After outlining the constituent elements of theoretical humanism and some of Madra’s key conceptual moves, this essay explores several analytical, normative, and ideological implications of such a redrawing of the boundaries of economic thought. Madra’s intervention opens up at least three lines of inquiry regarding the theoretical-humanist problematic: the relative amplitude of tensions internal to different economic approaches in its orbit, including their capacities to resist or escape its gravitational pull; how it circumscribes the scope of concrete, normative visions; and how everyday practices and identifications reinforce or depart from related ideological fantasies underpinning it.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972670
A. Chakrabarti
This review of Yahya Madra’s Late Neoclassical Economics centers on a claim made by mainstream economics to have surpassed the narrow horizon of neoclassical economics, understood as general equilibrium or Walrasian economics, having differentiated into a pluralist field. Through a detailed study of neoclassical economics, Madra distills the misplaced nature of this claim and disputes the propositions that neoclassical economics is nothing but Walrasian and that its new diverse theories belong to the nonneoclassical domain. Rather, the diverse theories of mainstream economics are shown to share with Walrasian economics, and with one another, a common problematic of theoretical humanism in the form of reconciling individual and aggregative/collective rationality in order to achieve a socioeconomic order. This review discussion ends by raising some issues that are absent or latently present in Madra’s book.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2021.1972696
R. Linhart
Robert Linhart’s translated 1966 text provides a framework for examining the Soviet transition as an overdetermined development, drawing a balance sheet of the strategy and tactics of the New Economic Policy (NEP). Reading Lenin’s shifting practical analyses of the situation from 1918–23, Linhart takes a thorough inventory of the principle (between the proletariat and the peasantry) and secondary class struggles—a “complex system of alliances”—and discerns the “thresholds” beyond which changes in the conjuncture imposed strategic turns and alternatives. Informed by a conception of a complex social formation in transition as unevenly articulated and marked by intense contradictions, Linhart analyzes the NEP as a revolutionary strategy that responded to and reconstituted the “disrupted equilibria” of social forces, operating (subjectively) against objective limitations. This necessitated not only the political transformation of state apparatuses but also, for Linhart, crucially emphasized a necessary Cultural Revolution to socialize the productive forces (popular control and accounting of production, circulation, and distribution).
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Pub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.4324/9781003209355-17
Zeynep Gambetti, Refik Güremen
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