marxism; critique, science, praxis - uai 301012
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Marxism:Critique,Science, Praxishizkia yosie polimpung
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Critique contra criticism(on Contrib ut io n to the C rit iq ue o fHe g e l s Philo so p hy o f Rig ht , 1843)
Young Hegelians: kritik transendensi
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature[...] It is the opium of the people. (244)
Feuerbach, Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner
Critique of religion as the the opium of thepeople, as merely criticism
Criticism: Critique of religion (or ideology) asopiate, becomes the opiate itself.
C ritique of opium, becomes the opium ofcritique.
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Contd Further critique of Young Hegelians in Ge rman
Id e o lo g y (1976 [1846])
Ludwig von Feuerbach: raw materialism void ofpolitical economy Bruno Bauer: mystification of critique; illusion of the
unity of thought and reality Max Stirner: illusion of self-autonomy; naive
anarchy Moses Hess & Karl Grun: abstract humanism void of
material basis We must go beyond romanticization, culturalization
(social construction), personalization, moralization.
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Contd
Remember Walter Benjamins Left-WingMelancholy (1931)
Casting blame
Self-victimismrather than victor. (Injury, asfor Wendy Brown, became the requirementfor criticism)
Self-claim of power
Self-glorification v ia neg a t iva
(cf. Wendy Brown, Resisting LeftMelancholy, 1999)
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Towards a Marxian critique "The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly
the struggle against tha t wo rldwhose spirituala romais religion."
"To call on them to give up their illusions about
their condition is to call on them to give up acondition that requires illusions.
Thus the criticism of heaven turns into the criticismof earth, the c rit ic ism o f relig io ninto the c rit ic ism o fla wand the c rit ic ism o f the o lo g yinto the c ritic ismo f p o lit ic s.
Marx brings forth the importance ofmaterialist
critique of political economy which conditions theidologico-religious edifice. That is, the social relations of productionto be
defined as re la t io ns o f ow ne rship (of m ea ns o fp roduc t i on )and thus c la ss re la tion s
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[Supp.] Schema of labor origin
of commodity (simplified)
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Scientific Marxism The imperative of inquiry into the nature of the soc ial
relations of productions The question of objectivity Not of free value, but that of a state outside of human
correlatesthought, language, aspiration, judgement. A kind of internal logic which governs the smooth-
functioning of things.
The question of materiality Of manifestation or impartation or crystalization (Marx) or
sublimation (Zizek) of social relations of production
Marxian Science:
Science to discover the objec tive law ordering thematerial world Cf. Althusserian epistemological break (and NOT
rupture) Centrality of method: dialec tical-materialist, historical-
materialist.
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Marxian Praxis Occurs in dialec tical sense
Without revolutionary theory there can be no
revolutionary practice. [Lenin, as quoted byAlthusser]
Revolutionary theory can effectively address onlyquestions that are raised in the course of practicalstruggles, and in turn this theorizing can bearticulated only through its creativeimplementation on the practical field. [Michael
Hardt, intensifying Althusser] The o ry is a fie ld o f re vo lutio na ry p ra xis!(otherwise,
only intellectual masturbations)
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Dialectics
Specificity Singularity Historicality
Universality
Specificity
.... Spec ific: material, objective, concrete
Singular: essence, meaning
Historical: Spatio-TemporalContext/Variant
Universal: the causa-prima; metaphysics
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Notes on metaphysics ofcommodity
A commodity appears at first sight anextremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis
brings out that it is a very strange thing,abounding in metaphysical subtleties andtheo log ic a l n ic e t ies. So far as it is a use-value,there is nothing mysterious about it, [...] But assoon as it emerges as a commodity, itchanges into a thing which transcends
sensuousness(Karl Marx, Ca p ita l, Vol. 1, trans. B. Fowkes (NY: PenguinBooks, 1976), p. 163; my emphasis)
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Marx and the contemporary
Deploy Diamat & Histomat method to
capture the spec ificity of contemporarycapitalism
Locate the current crisis of capitalism inthe logic of capital accumulation itself
Centrality of concrete field research in
struggle
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Suggestion for next discussion
Process of valorization and exchange
Capitalist regime of accumulation (fromprimitive, to capitalist, to flexible, tofinancial)
Evolution and/or variation of capitalistmode of production over time