Polemika. Kultura u opasnosti? (Odgovor ''kritičarima'')

Author(s): Aleksandar Mužinić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/1933

Neko se usudio nepovoljno izraziti se o dijalektičkom materijalizmu. Koje li drskosti! To je napadaj na savremenu kulturu! l, naravno, kulturni ljudi znaju što im je dužnost, - oni će u »Kulturi« (odmah u prvom broju) stati takom »kulturnom skandalu « na put, - u odbranu dijalektičkog materijalizma. Nekulturni kritičar, koji se drznuo napisati članak »Dijalektički materijalizam i vrijeme« (u »Novoj Evropi« od novembra 1932) dobija laskava epiteta: »teška neznalica«, »nesposoban«, »ne može da shvati«, »neozbiljan«, »plitak i vulgaran«; spada u »kategoriju ljudi koji imadu pasiju da pišu o predmetu koji uopće ne poznaju«, itd ..

It s all over now, baby blue

Author(s): Gáspár Miklós Tamás / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2012

The secret of today’s anticommunism consists in the confusion between the theory of real socialism and communist theory, readily, albeit involuntarily, assisted by Stalinists and their unconscious heirs.

Mediteransko mišljenje Alberta Camusa i filozofija povijesti

Author(s): Mislav Kukoč / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01/137/2015

Philosophy of history in its essence includes the idea that human history has its own meaning, the beginning and the end, that there are driving forces of history, that historical process during its own linear, progressive development aims to fulfil its own purpose and objective, whose realisation leads to the eschatological end of history. The approach of philosophy of history to the world history as a meaningful wholeness with its beginning and end is not known in the ancient foundations of Western European tradition. In Ancient Greek philosophy, which influenced Albert Camus’ Mediterranean thought, historical events were mainly seen as circular movement analogous with the nature. Refusing historical absolutism which sacrifices the man’s present for the sake of an eschatological future, Camus returns to the invincible postulate of the human nature whose secret has been kept by the Mediterranean. With his Mediterranean philosophy Camus confronts moderation with perfection, nature with history, revolt with revolution, carpe diem of the present with eschaton of the future, the sunny thought of the Mediterranean with the darkness of the European North.

Vrijeme i perspektiva

Author(s): Luka Bogdanić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01/137/2015

Massimiliano Tomba, Strati di tempo. Karl Marx materialista storico, Jaca Book, Milano 2010. In this article the author reviews the book Strati di tempo. Karl Marx materialista storico (Jaca Book, Milano 2010) by Massimiliano Tomba, reconsidering it in a wider conceptual-philosophical, cultural-historical, and social-political context. Just like Tomba in his study, the author emphasizes the thoughts of Karl Marx, especially historical materialism, which represents a framework for rethinking the time, the history, and the (possibility of) revolution, as well as the state of the left today.

Idea sprawiedliwości w myśli Karola Marksa

Author(s): Markus Lipowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: XXVI/2014

From the perspective of the history of ideas the output of Karl Marx poses a very difficult object of research. Though Marx himself made the issue of social justice a central aspect of his scientific praxis, the idea of “justice” itself seems to be paradoxically rather insignificant in his work. Nevertheless, no other philosophical conception has initiated such a number of social and political movements that eagerly tried to overcome the injustice of the capitalistic system and thereby radically change the fundamental processes of sociation. On the basis of the thoughts of non-Marxist Ralf Dahrendorf I will try to show that Marx’s conception of historical materialism itself contains two ideas of justice: first a “relative” idea of justice, which Marx criticized for being a functional superstructure of the capitalistic system – and the second is an “absolute” idea of justice, which Marx did not articulate directly but which can be understood on the basis of his work as a target of the social revolution. However, in Marx’s work this “absolute” idea of justice is not a utopian one, but it poses a materialistic potential of the capitalistic system that is still waiting for its realization.

Marxistische Philosophie: Erkenntnis und Existenz

Author(s): Helmut Dahm / Language(s): German Issue: 22+23/1967

How does the theoretical Marxism of today establish and articulate the origin and goal of his way of thinking? Since the beginning of the 1960s, Polish, Czech and Yugoslavian literature in particular has distinguished two main currents of contemporary Marxist philosophy: a scientist and a humanist one. This distinction has now become commonplace. Sometimes the thought movements visualized by it are also called cosmocentric and anthropocentric, ontological and ethical or simply philosophy of nature and philosophy of man. Confrontation and correspondence between these two main currents of Marxist philosophy of the contemporary, on the one hand, with modern neo-positivism and, on the other hand, with modern existentialism, are unmistakable. This is also the result of the critical attention that is being paid, especially in the Soviet Union, to opposition to positivist and existentialist danger.

Fenomenologia – filozofie a burgheziei muribunde

Author(s): Henri Wald / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5-6/2023

Between the First and Second World Wars, bourgeois philosophy fought against dialectical materialism more indirectly than openly. Through all its currents and schools it tried to undermine people's confidence in their ability to know and to transform the world, taking care to maintain a total silence around dialectical materialism - which they have always endeavoured to reduce to the mechanistic materialism of past ages - the bourgeois philosophers strove to disarm people in the face of life by discrediting the reason and the transformative role of work.

Antropologia filozofică înăuntrul marxismului

Author(s): Constantin Ionescu Gulian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5-6/2023

For Marxists, man was and is, implicitly and explicitly, a primary and permanent theme of philosophy. The deep and multilateral interest in man, both as an "individual" and as a "social being", is constitutive of Marxism. Nowadays, Marxist philosophers, through their many forays into the problems of humanism and alienation, necessity and freedom, socialist and communist morality, the question of character and personality etc., prove that they consider it necessary to address new and new sides of the human question.

Universalitatea etnicității

Author(s): Ernő, Gáll / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 5-6/2023

A fragment from „Dimensiunile conviețuirii” (București: Kriterion, 1978) by Gáll Ernő.

Marx ve Proudhon Arasında Mülkiyet Üzerine Tartışmalar

Author(s): Emre Özcan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2023

One noteworthy aspect of the theoretical debates between Proudhon and Marx, which is of historical significance in terms of highlighting the relationship between anarchism and Marxism, is their differing views on property. In the discussion of the origin and development of property, Proudhon characterizes property as theft, while Marx argues that property can only be evaluated within the framework of the social production relations of the relevant period. Proudhon’s aim is to analyze the forms of usurpation by revealing the impossibility of property. In Proudhon, who deals with this through the right to abuse, property is conceived as a legal concept and approaches that construct property as a "natural right" are criticized. Pointing out that Proudhon perceives property as a legal will, Marx emphasizes that he reduces all economic relations to property as a general concept of law, and he thinks that Proudhon’s critique of property does not go beyond Brissot’s motto “property is theft” used much earlier. The basis that Marx provides for this idea is that Proudhon’s economic-political critique was also based on the assumptions of the precursors of economic-political. In this study, the property-centered divergence between Proudhon and Marx is revealed through how the assumptions of a real critique of political economy are positioned in the critique of Proudhon.

Louis Althusser: Za Marxa.

Author(s): Primož Krašovec / Language(s): Slovenian Issue: 103/2023

Review of: Louis Althusser: Za Marxa.Ljubljana: Založba /*cf., 2023.Prevod: Maja Breznik in Slavoj Žižek.

Avant-Garde Transformation of Artistic Labor: The Productivist View of Boris Arvatov

Author(s): Nikola Dedić / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2022

The basic thesis of the article is that in historical materialist theory adistinction can be made between the terms work and labor. Work refers to a specificactivity – sewing, weaving, painting, sculpting. Labor refers to the social relationship,primarily between different social groups, i.e., classes – wage labor, serfdom, slavery,petty craftsmanship. Art history has approached the avant-garde mainly from the aspectof artistic work – for example, how the avant-garde transformed work in thedomain of painting into work in the domain of three-dimensional construction. Thisarticle tries to think of the avant-garde as a phenomenon that has transformed art interms of artistic labor. The basis is the transition from constructivism to productivismin Soviet art in the 1920s, and especially Boris Arvatov’s theoretical postulates.

Filosofia românească între 1950 și 1990. Lenin ca filosof și om de știință

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 2/2022

This pa-per explores the Romanian Marxist-Leninist literature concerning the philosophical contribution of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, especially in the field of philosophy of science. Three collections of studies and articles are considered. The oldest dates from 1959 (when the Academy of Sciences of Romanian Popular Republic organized festivities on the fiftieth anniversary of Leninʼs Mate-rialism and Empirio-criticism publication, trying to emphasizing the decisive intervention of Lenin against physical idealism), and the other two from 1970 (when Lenin himself was cele-brated in Romania on the centenary of his birth. This time, the contributors’ effort was concen-trated for a different purpose: the renewal of Leninist doctrine). At the beginning, the Romanian editions of the two books by Lenin are summarized: Materialism and Empirio-criticism (Roma-nian version, 1948) and Philosophical Notebooks (Romanian edition, 1956). Then, a Soviet book, authored by F.T. Arhiptsev (1957, Romanian version: 1959), which explains the material-ist-dialectical concept of matter, is presented, too. I argue that this type of Soviet books served as models for the Romanian imitations. The investigation suggests (but does not conclude) that Lenin as philosopher and scientist was a deliberate construction of the Communist Party, with a specific purpose: the supremacy over sci-entists and humanists.

Filosofia românească între 1950 și 1990. „Revoluția științifică-tehnică” și noua concepție marxist-leninistă asupra omului, societății și lumii

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 1/2024

The following paper continues the exploration of the Romanian Marxism-Leninism previously initi-ated by our journal. We explore a deeply desired but insufficiently understood metamorphosis of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy that occurred between the Declaration of PMR from April 1964 and the final moments of the Romanian Communist Party (few days before 1990). That devel-opment included, as an inner core, the intense focus on the scientific and social transformation of the human world as the result of the new scientific and technical discoveries. The effect of this long-term concentrated attention involved three features. Firstly, it was the po-litical aspect of the technical and the social development in the new historical context. Secondly, the prospective one (the early identification of the possible new directions of development). The third aspect, but not the last as importance, was the pragmatic aspect (in which, the Romanian Marxist-Leninist philosophers were going to state the main actions to be performed). The purpose of the above-mentioned metamorphosis was to support the Communist Party in its efforts to remain the leading force of the new Romanian socialist society.

Cibernetica și marxism-leninismul în România. Traduceri, volume românești, culegeri de studii (1964 – 1990). Bibliografie adnotată

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2024

Cybernetics and Marxism-Leninism in Romania. Translations, Romanian Books and Collec-tions of Studies (1964-1990). Annotated Bibliography

Istina i ideologija socijalizma

Author(s): Danilo N. Basta,Ljubomir Tadić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 03-04/1982

Czym jest interes skoro go nie ma? Heglowska dialektyka interesu i bezinteresowności

Author(s): Stanisław Chankowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 31/2022

The article discusses the category of interest, which is an explanatory category of social phenomena in materialist ontology, particularly the Marxist variety. The considerations are guided by Hegel’s conviction that every category taken in abstraction loses its exploratory value, so instead of asking for such an ultimate basis for explanation, one should investigate what else should be assumed for something – interest – to really mean something. Following this advice, the text carries out a conceptual analysis of the categories of life, teleology and identity and their mutual relationship based on Hegelian philosophy. Overcoming the ambiguity of Hegel’s argument makes it possible to uncover the dialectically negative identity of spirit that is society and nature, which, transferred to the dimension of social relations, makes it possible to talk about the internal connection of interest with its negation, which is disinterestedness. It turns out that interest can only mean something if it is related to disinterestedness, which, again, on the grounds of social relations and especially class confl ict, proves to be the interest of the possibility of being disinterested. In the fi nal part of the article, the result of these considerations is referred to Hegelian social philosophy, where it turns out to be refl ected in the relation between the two main categories of ‘ethical life’ and ‘moral life’ usually devalued by interpreters. At the same time, the relation between these categories corresponds to the relation between the universal model of the bourgeoisie with their economic interests and the disinterested representatives of the general estate.

Filosofia românească între 1950 și 1990. Etica „nouă” în „dictatura proletariatului” și în „societatea socialistă multilateral dezvoltată” din România

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2024

The paper continues the exploration of the Romanian Marxism-Leninism previously initiated by our journal. We follow this time the path of moral development of the New Soviet man, as he walked it in Romania, after the war. The path consists of two stages: the first one, of destruction, and the other one, of construction. „The New Man” will be the main character of the „New” Ethics story.

Etica „nouă” în România. Traduceri, volume românești, culegeri de studii (1964 – 1990). Bibliografie adnotată

Author(s): Dragoș Popescu / Language(s): Romanian,Moldavian Issue: 3/2024

The „New” Ethics in Romania. Translations, Romanian Books and Collections of Studies (1964-1990). Annotated Bibliography

Šezdeset godina dekonstrukcije: postmarksističko preobraćenje

Author(s): Veronique Taquin / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 29/2024

Trijumf intelektualnih obmana Helen Pluckrose i Jamesa Lindsaya uvod je u pokret dekonstrukcije, čiju su nam ideološku vrijednost približili radovi Pierre-Andrea Taguieffa, posebno njegove posljednje knjige o antirasizmu i o recepciji Nietzschea.*