Il marxismo occidentale. Come nacque, come morì, come può rinascere

Perhaps the single greatest distillation of so-called "Western Marxism" is its fetish for defeat. Losurdo does not mince words here, documenting the academic and scholarly history of the bifurcation that takes place in the beginning of the 20th century between Eastern Marxism and Western Marxism, ce Leggi tutto

A welcome corrective to decades of incessant neglect of the question of imperialism and colonialism by the Western Left. A book length polemic put together with Losurdo's characteristic incisive wit and thorough sourcing. Losurdo demonstrates yet again that the near universal dismissal of the social Leggi tutto

"If, in one respect, they may increase the clarity of vision, distance from power and disdain toward it can also obstruct vision." "Western Marxism's break with the anticolonial revolution is also the refusal to take up the problems arising from taking power...Addicted to the role of opposition and c Leggi tutto

every anarchistic, liberal and Maoist needs to read this and STFU

A very thought-provoking and polemical work. This book is a thrashing of the Western Left and the disappointing intellectual tradition they built after the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. Instead of following the anti-colonial edicts of the Third International and Soviet Union, Western Marxism

*Observações gerais:* - ótimo projeto gráfico - não sobra um autor marxista sem crítica - nem mesmo Foucault e Hannah Arendt são perdoados - a tese principal do livro é de que os autores do marxismo ocidental, ainda que eventualmente se encontrasse com a luta anti-imperialista, distanciou-se dela e fome Leggi tutto

La tesis central del libro aborda el concepto de «marxismo occidental», un marxismo característico de los centros imperialistas que esencialmente olvida -consciente o inconscientemente- la cuestión colonial/anti-imperialista. Entre sus páginas Losurdo diserta ampliamente sobre la ruptura entre este Leggi tutto

Sorry to my comrades but I do not understand the hype with this book. Yes Western Marxim is everything that Losurdo says it is, but because Losurdo groups such a diverse amount of thinkers into one Camp, and I mean one camp, alot of the arugementation is just confusing. It seems that Losurdo is dire Leggi tutto

L'unica critica da porre a questo libro è che se nel suo essere perfetto nel scardinare questo falso marxismo moderno di cui si riempiono la bocca in tanti non attacca con la ferocia di uno Stirner, pur annullando le tesi dei vari Agamben Badiou Foucault e compagnia (non cialtroni, ma politicamente Leggi tutto