“Rehabilitate Marx!” The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post-Stalinist Modernity

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angličtina

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“Rehabilitate Marx!” The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post-Stalinist Modernity

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The paper presents the basic contours of our book “Rehabilitate Marx!” The Czechoslovak Party Intelligentsia and Post Stalinist Modernity, which examines how new forms of socialist modernity were conceptualized during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s in Czechoslovakia. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary challenge they were facing wasn’t merely the further development of socialism, which would lead to communism: they would need to reformulate the entire socialist project. These intellectuals gradually abandoned the Marxist orthodoxy of their time and began searching for new interpretations of classic Marxist works that would provide an adequate conceptual framework for addressing contemporary problems. While other research has focused on the history of the communist reformism that culminated in 1968 (and therefore more or less subsumed intellectual activities into political developments), this book presents post-Stalinist thought as an autonomous sphere. Author’s analysis brings forward the diverse spectrum of post-Stalinist thought, and shows us a world of varying socialist visions. On the methodological level, the analysis is based on the concept of the field of thought, which is inspired by the works of Michel Foucault (“episteme”), Gilles Deleuze (“plane of immanence”) and Louis Althusser (“field of problematics”). Within it the authors then distinguish between three specific modes of thought of post-Stalinist Marxism – dialectical determinism, Marxist humanism and techno-optimism. Finally, they also discuss the internal limits of this field (its antinomies, unacknowledged colonial perspective and nationalism).

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O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů