Re: From Gramsci On (Althusser. Poulantzas, Laclau/Mouffe and Analytical Marxism)

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

One question:

Bryan Alexander
Department of English
University of Michigan
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On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 LeoCasey@xxxxxxx wrote:

>...
> 1. The significance of Althusser.
> Louis asks an important question concerning the place/significance of
> Althusser within Marxism. My personal take is that Althusser was the Martin
> Luther of Stalinist Communism. Before Althusser, Communist militants/scholars
> did not read/interpret Marxian texts on their own, but took their cues from
> the official, stultifying dogmatic reading provided by the Communist papacy
> residing in the Communist Rome, Moscow, transmitted through the local
> episcopal sees. Althusser's "reading of Marx" opened up the space in which
> the Communist militant/scholar could establish his/her own independent
> relationship with the Marxian texts....
Didn't the Frankfurt School do this as well?  of course it didn't address
the same questions as did Althusser, but that crew did move quite
independently of Stalin (esp. after 1940) and with formidable
intellectual support.


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