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Inspired by Immanuel Wallerstein s Utopistics, this book shows why
utopistics cannot advance without sober and self-critical
revisitations of its own intellectual heritage. Most sympathetic
critiques of Marxism have targeted the shortcomings in its
practices and/or theories (including its materialist conception of
history), while regarding Marx s materialist dialectical method as
sacred ground. Through a succinct analysis of the inner
contradictions of the three practical, theoretical, and
methodological tenets of classical Marxism, Tamdgidi argues that
the root causes of Marxism s decline must be sought in Marx s
method itself. This book concludes with a critical reexamination of
the relation of Marxism and utopianism, arguing that Marx and
Engels s debunking of utopianism in contrast to science had more of
an ideological function than substantive merits, an ultimate error
that set back the cause of advancing alternative strategies for
radical social change for decades. A substantial methodological
appendix is devoted to the exposition of a non-reductive, creative
dialectical method more conducive to advancing utopistics."
Inspired by Immanuel Wallerstein's Utopistics, this book shows why
utopistics cannot advance without sober and self-critical
revisitations of its own intellectual heritage. Most sympathetic
critiques of Marxism have targeted the shortcomings in its
practices and/or theories (including its materialist conception of
history), while regarding Marx's materialist dialectical method as
sacred ground. Through a succinct analysis of the inner
contradictions of the three practical, theoretical, and
methodological tenets of classical Marxism, Tamdgidi argues that
the root causes of Marxism's decline must be sought in Marx's
method itself. This book concludes with a critical reexamination of
the relation of Marxism and utopianism, arguing that Marx and
Engels's debunking of utopianism in contrast to science had more of
an ideological function than substantive merits, an ultimate error
that set back the cause of advancing alternative strategies for
radical social change for decades. A substantial methodological
appendix is devoted to the exposition of a non-reductive, creative
dialectical method more conducive to advancing utopistics.
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