Yiorgos Moraitis

Abstract

Beginning with a critical assessment of David Harvey’s perspectives on Marxism this paper examines current developments in dialectical materialism that offer alternative possibilities for class-based movements struggling to overcome neoliberal policies around the world. My objective is to show that, despite his self-declared Marxism, Harvey’s version of Marxism remains tethered to the prevailing bourgeois logic of fetish-forms and fails to provide us with a sufficient description for the organization of a new form of class struggle appropriate for the 21st century. Methodologically situated within the wider context of Western Marxism, this paper juxtaposes two versions of how Marxist dialectics can be evaluated: the work of Louis Althusser, which in my view Harvey follows, and the Open Marxist path that I regard as closer to what Marx had in mind in his interpretation of social reality.

Keywords

Mediation, Overdetermination, Fetishism, Crisis, Class Struggle

From: Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 2018 46 (1)

Editor: Wang Yi