EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVES: WHY MARXISM? APPROACHING AN OLD QUESTION FROM A NEW STANDPOINT

摘要

I have been asked to prepare a presentation outlining an argument in favor of Marxist foundations in social theory and political practice, for an audience of left-leaning young people. These folks, after all we have been through, still need to be convinced. They are attracted by the siren songs of radical empiricism, anarchism, methodological individualism, neoclassical economics, communitarian theory, the postmodern sublime, and so on. That's ok. It could not be otherwise.