Istorijsko-materijalistička kritika
Historical-materialist Criticism

Author(s): Đorđe Hristov, Mark Losoncz, Ivica Mladenović
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Criticism; Marxism; Dialectic; Revolution; Praxis; Materialism; Political economy
Summary/Abstract: Although the demand for criticality among social scientists and philosophers is presented as part of a professional calling, Karl Marx is, along with Immanuel Kant and Pierre Bourdieu, probably the most influential social thinker whose entire intellectual oeuvre is immanently marked by the term criticism. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Critique of the Gothic Program, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, as well as the first co-authored work with Friedrich Engels, The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism, are just some of the titles of his books. although each of his works contains a specific critical model in relation to a specific issue, as well as the period of creation. Because, as shown by certain Marxists (Renault 1999: 181), the concept of criticism is polysemic in Marx, that is, it concerns: the goals of the discourse — when he criticizes other discourses that legitimize the established order; forms of discourse — when criticism is opposed to non-critical, dogmatic or doctrinal approaches; of discourse content — opposing critical political economy to traditional classical economy; finally, criticism is also applied in the domain of praxis — in the context of criticism of practice...

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