[D66] "Marxism forms an enduring, integral part of modern culture"

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Michael Löwy: "Marxism forms an enduring, integral part of modern culture"

    By Nicolas Allen., www.versobooks.com
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    May 5th, 2018

Löwy discusses the many deaths and afterlives of Marxism, Romantic
anti-capitalism, and universalism and Latin American Marxism.
via anticapitalistes.net.

First published in Revista Intersecciones

This first question has to do with the crisis of Marxism. Marxism has
been written-off as a dead tradition many times over, especially in the
1980s and 90s. Academics and the political class have been happy to
pronounce its death, and yet, following the 2008 global economic crisis
there seems to have been a “rehabilitation” of Marxist theory. How do
you understand this phenomenon?

There is an interesting quote that says: “At last, Marxism is finally
dead for all humanity.” And the date? 1989? 1921? No, the quote belongs
to Benedetto Croce, from 1907. And ten years later we saw the Russian
Revolution.

The death of Marxism has been heralded a thousand times throughout
history. This will never change. As long as capitalism still exists,
there will always be Marxism. Of course, the demise of the USSR was
especially conducive to the crisis of Marxism. Many people felt that the
USSR was the embodiment of Marxism, and that attitude created the ideal
conditions for the bourgeoisie to attempt to rid itself once and for all
of the spectre of Marxism, communism, and socialism. But I think they
failed in their efforts.

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