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Marxvaad, Nav-marxvaad ate Utar-adhuniktavaad
The neo-Marxists among these rubbished the objective part of the ideology and turned more and more subjective in their analysis. Modernism and post-modernistic tendencies were regarded as pessimistic and decadent in attitude and most of the ills of today’s global village were attributed to capitalism or its varied forms such as imperialism, neo-colonialism, mono-culturalism et al. The writer centres his discourse on this belief and the developing/developed theories which advanced the cause of Marxism. However the book, though rich in references and quite compactly packaged for the regional readers, needs better editing and reordering of the chapters. The language, suffocated by the overuse of terminology, is sometimes repetitive and eerily propagandist in its tone. The first half contributes in serving as a worthy backgrounder to a loftier theory that the reader eagerly waits for but which never arrives. In the second half, the opinions of the writer, foregrounding literature and religion in Marxism seem insipid and watered-down versions of more powerful thinkers on the subject. Continuously offering Marxism as Hobson’s choice for solving all of society’s problems does not redeem the book as a ‘solution’ for anything. The negative impacts of globalisation of culture, media and commerce as well as of the ‘everything goes’ post-modernist ideology are lost in the consistent harping after Marx. After wading deep through
its pages my deconstructive analysis: even if Marx did not exist, it
would have been necessary to invent him. |
During
the nineteenth century, Marx and Engel developed explanations for the
historical development of the capitalist mode of production and
exploitation. This socialist realism was adopted as the official
doctrine of the Soviet Union by Lenin and later supplemented by a host
of thinkers at the ideological level such as George Lukacs, the
Frankfurt School thinkers, Adorno, Horkheimer, Raymond Williams and
Terry Eagleton, to name a few.