Marcel van der Linden
Autor de Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917
Sobre El Autor
Marcel van der Linden is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor in the History of Social Movements at the University of Amsterdam.
Créditos de la imagen: Jurriaan Bendien - Marcel van der Linden (2012)
Obras de Marcel van der Linden
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (2007) 33 copias
Humanitarian intervention and changing labor relations : the long-term consequences of the abolition of the slave trade (2010) 3 copias
Shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the world. Case studies 1950-2010 (2017) — Editor — 2 copias
Über Marx hinaus: Arbeitsgeschichte und Arbeitsbegriff in der Konfrontation mit den globalen Arbeitsverhältnissen des… (2009) 2 copias
The Formation of labour movements, 1870-1914 : an international perspective (1990) — Editor — 1 copia
Die Rezeption der Marxschen Theorie in den Niederlanden (Schriften aus dem Karl-Marx-Haus) (1992) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2011) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 71 copias
Deliverance from Slavery: Attempting a Biblical Theology in the Service of Liberation (2008) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 11 copias
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Special shout out to all the views based around "Asiatic despotism" or "the Asiatic mode of production" (primarily Wittfogel descendants - awful man) which take a very rough rarely mentioned point from Marx and extend it really far to produce a racist, orientalist view of socialist states which explains nothing at all and deliberately bends the facts to fit the absurd theory. Some of these people saw Russia becoming "Asiatic" through the invasion of the Mongols! Surely a valuable way of analysing the USSR in 1970.
The conclusion of "none of these theories work in terms of 'orthodox Marxism'" is basically the extent of explicit editorialising the author offers but it's not meant as a criticism necessarily but more something important to point out because trying to fit everything into a framework sketched out 150 years ago is really constricting and whether something is "orthodox Marxist" isn't very important - or rather, it shouldn't be, as long as the framework created afterwards is still consistent and a useful way of analysing society. The meta theoretical note in the appendix is actually quite thought provoking, even though it's only a few pages - just some notes on what a "political theory" consists of and how political theories are attacked and changed… (más)