Review of Economic Philosophy

Tag: Marxism

  • Stabilities and Disruption in Cohen. On Nicolas Vrousalis’s The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen. Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury, 2015)

    Abstract

    The present contribution questions Gerald A. Cohen’s intellectual journey, both directed to emancipation and marked by theoretical breaks. While Nicolas Vrousalis’ book, The Political Philosophy of G. A. Cohen. Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury, 2015) aims to restore, in a complete and consistent manner, Cohen’s intellectual construction around an emancipatory perspective, brightly lays out the decisive stages in the intellectual evolution of Cohen, it seems to us that he puts too little emphasis on the breaks in his thought. We believe that if its unity is due both to his method and to his assigned objective, it significantly changed, in such a way that it might seem that some of the claims he ever defended are mutually inconsistent, at least to some extent. Vrousalis is not able to fully grasp this, since he grants not much importance to the transitional phases in the development of Cohen’s thought. This contribution first introduces Vrousalis’ book, and then proposes a complementary approach, which might be an alternative to Vrousalis’.

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  • The Transformations of Marx’s Thought on Colonization

    Abstract

    This article analyzes the evolutions of Marx’s positions on colonization. It first emphasizes the invariant of his reflections: the denunciation of colonial violence. We initially find an interpretation of colonization as a process of modernization, then as a dynamic of “destruction-regeneration,” linked to the “unification of the world.” The author identifies above all the successive inflections of Marx’s – resolutely critical – thought about colonial and national issues, the non-linear character of history, and the differentiation of social formations.

    Codes JEL: B14, B51, N10.

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  • The Last Gorz and the Value Criticism

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    At the of the 2000s, André Gorz (1923-2007) met with enthusiasm the “Value Criticism”, an heterodox interpretation of Marx, and seemed to find arguments to support his own radical critique of capitalism. The article questions the philosophical status of this link and defends the idea that the Gorz’s Existentialist Marxism is not, fundamentally, compatible with the structuralism of this Marxist current.

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    JEL Codes: B14, B24, B5

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  • The Transformations of Marx’s Thought on Colonization

    Abstract

    This article analyzes the evolutions of Marx’s positions on colonization. It first emphasizes the invariant of his reflections : the denunciation of colonial violence. We initially find an interpretation of colonization as a process of modernization, then as a dynamic of “destruction-regeneration,” linked to the “unification of the world.” The author identifies above all the successive inflections of Marx’s – resolutely critical – thought about colonial and national issues, the non-line

    Outline

    • Introduction
    • L’invariant de la réflexion : la dénonciation de la violence coloniale
    • Au point de départ, la modernisation et la civilisation
    • La colonisation comme dynamique de destruction-régénération
    • Le processus d’unification du monde, marche vers la révolution
    • Inflexion N° 1 : questions coloniale et nationale
    • Inflexion N° 2 : histoire non linéaire et bonds en avant
    • Inflexion N° 3 : différenciation des formations sociales
    • Seconde rupture ou rupture continue avec Hegel ?
    • Conclusion

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    Codes JEL : B14, B51, N10

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