Re: Rebuilding Western Marxism ?

["Marvin Gandall" <marvin.gandall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou Proyect:

"This is not what Perry Anderson intended at all. His "Considerations of
Western Marxism" was a slashing attack on academic Marxism, a term that I
prefer to Western Marxism...Here is an excerpt from...Anderson's book, which
is one of my favorite by the way..."


Mine too, but Anderson's critique extended well beyond the academic left,
encompassing the small Marxist groups, as well, including Trotskyism. He
rightly considered that they had veered off in an idealist direction,
emphasizing subjective factors such as the crisis of leadership, program,
and political will, because they could not accept that the objective
situation had turned decisively against them, calling into question their
very existence as organizations which had unfurled their revolutionary
banners in a open challenge to social democracy for leadership of the
working class. As such, it's still relevant reading today.

MG


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