Comments on Fragments and Comments: Note on Authority

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2006-12-07T19:32:00.000-08:00

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2006-12-04T03:09:00.000-08:00

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2006-12-03T06:39:00.000-08:00

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2006-11-24T18:44:00.000-08:00

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Yes, but it's very theoretical core is builted wit...

2006-02-19T02:39:00.000-08:00

Yes, but it's very theoretical core is builted without taking in consideration human factors, such as greed for instance. It showed to be a fatal flaw, resulting in a society that was builted in USSR and Eastern Europe.

To shorten up, basicly I'm saying that it's impossible to carry out marxist ideas in their original form. They had had, are and will allways be disrupted by our greed.

Thanks for encouraging words. I would hardly pass ...

2006-02-18T16:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks for encouraging words.
I would hardly pass as a Marxist. I do think that Marx and developers of his thought indeed are thinkers that should not be left in the history of political philosophy. But yet I don't think that every other philosopher should be dissmised as a bourgeois thinker. I think that we commit the same mistake if we call John Stuart Mill an bourgeois ideologist or Engels a latent supporter of totalitarianism. Both should be approached with the same thought in mind: that they are theorist, trying to dislose the truth of society. In my opinion, saying that Marx or Engels are unworthy of theoretical attention because history "proved them wrong" means that one is uncapable or unwilling to face their thier thought. After all, as I argue in my previous post, what is actual must never determine the theory. Marxism is not just about trying to build a certain society. It is also a theoretical system which has different evolution and different proposals as that of communism that had taken place in 20th century.

First of all I'd like to say, that I find your blo...

2006-02-18T13:33:00.000-08:00

First of all I'd like to say, that I find your blog quite interesting. Keep up the good work.
The thing that I especially appreciate is your ability of self-reflection. You, as a marxist(if i have understood you well), build a constructive criticism of Engels work, though him being a founder of the ideology. His flaws are pointed out very well.

From my point of view, a libertarist one, I just don't understand why to bother with analysis of ideologies, that prooved to be too weak in the past?

Marxism has many diverse notions of the role of in...

2006-02-18T09:14:00.000-08:00

Marxism has many diverse notions of the role of intelectual, one of them being the infamous "organic intelectual". I doubt whether this notion would fit with your thesis that Party (being formed by intelectuals)is unbound to its material basis. But, of course, it is a thesis that Žižek would be quick to assert ;)

The same can said about the problem of autonomity of ideologic. Marxist ideology indeed believes that ideology (and thus politics) is fundamentally linked to some material condition. But not Marxism. From Gramsci on, politics are an autonomous sphere with its own laws of structuration. Further, authors like Lukacs, Macherey and Althusser showed that it is possible to concieve a Marxist theory of autonomity of even such an "ideological sphere" (as it appeared to early Marxist thinkers) as art. So I don't think that we can pass judgements on "Marxism as such" without ignoring some very relevant Marxist authors...

Very interesting, indeed: revolution as the libera...

2006-02-18T08:31:00.000-08:00

Very interesting, indeed: revolution as the liberation of authority itself from the constraint of material production. This point doesn’t arise directly from Engels’ argumentation, but it seems to be its logical consequence. Very well pointed out! And, if I may add a rhetorical question in a Žižekean fashion: Isn’t this notion very close to the Leninist interpretation of the Party as an enlightened entity whose authority springs from theoretical knowledge (and is thus unbound to material production)?

As to the second part: the very core of Marxist ideology is that politics ceases to be interpreted as an autonomous sphere. If we interpret liberty as the definition of the principle that rules in politics (which is an exquisitely Greek notion, but present to a certain extent also in the classical political theory, from Machiavelli to Tocqueville), then we could say that Marxism radically denies liberty. (The catch is of course that no true Marxist would ever accept such a definition of liberty.)