By Christoph Henning
Translated by means of Max Henninger. evaluate essay via Frederic Jameson.
Christoph Henning writes a concise historical past of misreadings of Marx within the twentieth century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he additionally addresses the impact of Rawls and Neopragmatism, in this case scrutinizing a prior heritage of Marx-interpretations that had served because the premises upon which those later works have been dependent. Henning sketches a historic trajectory within which a conception of socialist politics enters the fields of economics, sociology, severe concept and theology, earlier than eventually – overloaded with intellectually useless freight – getting into philosophy. In so doing, he is taking a hermeneutic method of how misreadings in a selected box proliferate into extra misreadings throughout a number of fields, resulting in an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the new resurgence of curiosity in Marx, Henning's old recursions make obtrusive the place and the way educational Anti-Marxism had formerly bought it wrong.
English translation of Philosophie nach Marx. a hundred Jahre Marxrezeption und die normative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005.
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Holzey 1994, p. 11. Traditional interpretations of Marx were often more appropriate than the destructive postures of later academic Marxists. Rosa Luxemburg was one theorist who grasped the tendential character of the Marxian laws: ‘The struggle of the average size enterprise against big Capital cannot be considered a regularly proceeding battle in which the troops of the weaker party continue to melt away directly and quantitatively. It should be rather regarded as a periodic mowing down of the small enterprises, which rapidly grow up again, only to be mowed down once more by large industry’ (Luxemburg 1971a, p.
90). It seems that nothing needs to be done except await this political ‘victory’: ‘Socialist production is, therefore, the natural result of a victory of the proletariat’ (p. 191). And ‘victory’ seemed easy enough to achieve: ‘Bourgeois society is preparing its own downfall so vigorously that we need only await the moment in which to pick up the power that falls from its grasp’ (Bebel speaking at the 1891 Party Congress, quoted in Lehnert 1983, p. 83). First capitalism collapses, then power is seized, then there is socialism: everything plays out by natural necessity.
N. Whitehead. Introduction • 15 there was no theoretical net to break theory’s fall. We do, however, dispose of ruins that allow us to reconstruct this history. The second chapter covers the period from the 1892 Erfurt Programme to the end of socialism in 1989. But its mode of presentation is not historical. The chapter is structured systematically, distinguishing between the discursive contexts of various disciplines that overlap temporally. 6 are structured so as to draw attention to an increasing withdrawal from reality.