Making Marx an Empiricist: On Recent «Analytic» Marx Interpretations
Making Marx an Empiricist: On Recent «Analytic» Marx Interpretations

Summary/Abstract: This survey of some „analytical“ Marxists shows a pervasive tendency in the present to make canonical the anti-utopian and anti-normative Marx of the polemical writings. The orthodoxy of this new reception can be located in its desire to give us yet another version of „scientific socialism“ now clothed in the less honorific philosophical language of a new empiricism. But in view of the broad and radical challenges to the very foundations of Marxism on all fronts, from social theory to feminism, the past mistakes of scientific Marxism demand revision, not repetition. And as poststructuralism shows as well, all the non-foundationalist innovations in philosophy turn out to be insufficiently revisionary in social and political theory. Analytical Marxism is the same old tired Marxism, now burdened with new empiricist difficulties about facts and values.

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