MARCH, 2016 – The overall aim of Peter Hudis in Marx’s concept of the alternative to capitalism is to unearth “the prefigurative”—the vision of a new post-capitalist world—from the writings of a Marx usually seen as agnostic on the question. The search for this prefigurative Marx raises an old issue: how do we reconcile the objective with the subjective, the objectively determined laws of motion in the economy with the emergence of a mass revolutionary subject?
The above is the first paragraph of “The Ideal Immanent Within the Real: On Peter Hudis’ Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”. [1] The complete text can be found here.
[1] Paul Kellogg, “The Ideal Immanent Within the Real: On Peter Hudis’ Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism,” Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 227–227, https://doi.org/10.18740/S4BW2P.
The Ideal Immanent Within the Real
Published March 1, 2016 by pkellogg
MARCH, 2016 – The overall aim of Peter Hudis in Marx’s concept of the alternative to capitalism is to unearth “the prefigurative”—the vision of a new post-capitalist world—from the writings of a Marx usually seen as agnostic on the question. The search for this prefigurative Marx raises an old issue: how do we reconcile the objective with the subjective, the objectively determined laws of motion in the economy with the emergence of a mass revolutionary subject?
The above is the first paragraph of “The Ideal Immanent Within the Real: On Peter Hudis’ Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”. [1] The complete text can be found here.
[1] Paul Kellogg, “The Ideal Immanent Within the Real: On Peter Hudis’ Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism,” Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 227–227, https://doi.org/10.18740/S4BW2P.
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