douglain - Take the Marxist Challenge

From: dobrovolets Date: June 4th, 2009 03:11 pm (UTC) (Link)

I can name three off the top of my head, without recourse to Google: Walter Daum, Ahmet Tonak, Robin Murray.

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From: benburgis Date: June 4th, 2009 09:09 pm (UTC) (Link)

I can't believe I forgot Walter Daum. I was trying to name one, and I was all, like, "Ernest Mandel? No, dead. Tony Cliff? No, dead. Shit...Hmm...."

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From: communicator Date: June 4th, 2009 04:03 pm (UTC) (Link)

Eric Hobsbawm - admittedly he's pretty old. Habermas?

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From: supergee Date: June 4th, 2009 04:06 pm (UTC) (Link)

Unfortunately, yes.

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From: readingthedark Date: June 4th, 2009 04:33 pm (UTC) (Link)

Yes, many.

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From: douglain Date: June 4th, 2009 05:19 pm (UTC) (Link)

Please do.

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From: readingthedark Date: June 4th, 2009 08:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

Hi,

I feel like Samir Amin would be the pat answer.

Mieville's Between Equal Rights certainly puts him on the list.

Marxist Lit Crit is my background. Post-Derrida, I follow the ones who study the Gothic and hauntology, but I can't think of anyone that is a must read. Maybe Fred Botting. Terry Eagleton is the poster-child (of those still living), but he was cooler long ago. Adrianne Rich, when she writes Marxist Lit Crit, is great. Julia Kristeva would probably not claim Marx like she once did, but the early work is still astounding. Eventually my list would devolve into people like Michael du Plessis, who I think is still at USC.

The references for this essay are a fun mix of where gothic, hauntology, Marxism and art intersect:
http://www.newmappings.net/archives/papers/hauntologies

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From: sfmurphy1971.wordpress.com Date: June 4th, 2009 04:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

Eric Foner.

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From: ktsparrow Date: June 4th, 2009 04:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

Hmm, this is in a way asking if you can name a Freudian psychologist, I mean, social theory can't get away from standing on the back of Marx.

But, to answer your question, the three theorists that pop into my head are Donna Haraway, Emmanuel Wallerstein, and Guyatri Spivak.

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From: jenlight Date: June 4th, 2009 07:05 pm (UTC) (Link)

A professor at UMass Boston by the name of Arthur MacEwan.

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From: marlowe1 Date: June 5th, 2009 02:14 am (UTC) (Link)

Dumbshit. Stupid Motherfucker and That Old Asshole Creep.

That's at least what I call them. They are not as obnoxious as the Free Market Extremists but that's only because they are so sad.

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From: douglain Date: June 5th, 2009 03:37 am (UTC) (Link)

You do understand that after the revolution I'll be obligated to report you to the authorities as another one in need of reeducation, don't you?

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