Contre-histoire du libéralisme : l’exclusion structurelle au cœur de l’idéal

Domenico Losurdo démonte le mythe du libéralisme comme universalisme : de l’esclavage aux colonies, en passant par la « question nègre » et les exclusions de classe, il révèle une exclusion structurelle constitutive de son histoire. Une généalogie implacable contre l’amnésie libérale. Billet ⬇️ #Losurdo #Libéralisme #ContreHistoire #Critique Dans Contre-histoire du libéralisme (2006), Domenico…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/contre-histoire-du-liberalisme-lexclusion-structurelle-au-coeur-de-lideal/

Another great discussion w/ #RossWolfe about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw

(the trilogy is here:
https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/)

#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #socialism #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Fascinating trilogy of essays by Brooklyn Rail's #RossWolfe critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher & historian #DomenicoLosurdo, w/ particular focus on #Losurdo's attacks on #WesternMarxism in his eponymously titled book.

https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/
https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/

Also a great pod discussion of the series w/ Ross: https://www.patreon.com/posts/138384057

#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #politicalTheory #historyOfMarxism #Stalinism #campism #philosophy #books @bookstodon

"Domenico Losurdo, whose neo-Stalinist approach to philosophy is the focus of the present inquiry, offered his own polemical appraisal of Western Marxist theorists some forty years after Anderson and Jacoby. An English translation of this work, entitled Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it can be Reborn, was released last year by the publishing house attached to Monthly Review, a journal long known for its sympathy with actually-existing socialism and developmentalist regimes on the periphery of capitalism. Losurdo’s main complaint against the odd assortment of figures collected in that book is that they ignored anticolonial struggles.

Once his concrete engagements with individual Western Marxists have been fleshed out, it will be possible to challenge Losurdo’s abstract overarching framework. So as to better organize what follows, however, the various theorists he castigated in Western Marxism will be divided along roughly national lines. Della Volpe, Tronti, Timpanaro, and Negri will be grouped together as dissident Marxists in Italy. Sartre, Althusser, and Badiou will fall under the rubric of French Marxism. (For the purposes of this essay, Žižek will be thrown in here, given his debt to Althusserianism.) Adorno, Horkheimer, Bloch, and Marcuse will of course count as German Marxists. Not all of these figures will be defended with equal vigor; not all are equally defensible. But all of them deserve better than the treatment they receive at the hands of Losurdo. Finally, his gloss on non-Marxists such as Arendt and Foucault will be covered, along with his challenge to Anderson. His slack scholarship will be seen to extend to his work on Nietzsche and Stalin as well. This will then lead in the third part into a broader examination of the historic failure of international revolution and a reassessment of the role of the state..."

https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

#Losurdo #CriticalTheory #Philosophy #History #Marx #Neostalinism

https://youtu.be/_1lXUpKWIZc?feature=shared

Gabriel #Rockhill: Western #Marxism, #Imperialism, Slavoj #Zizek, #Stalin, USSR, #China, Deng Xiaoping

#losurdo #indiaGlobalLeft

Die Zeit, in der Chinesen für unkultiviert gehalten wurden, sei vorbei, sagte #Mao 1949. Domenico #Losurdo zeichnet die Verknüpfung von nationaler #Befreiung und sozialistischem #Aufbau nach. https://buff.ly/3OXtxc3

Foto: Wang Shuzhou

In questa conferenza del 2017 Domenico Losurdo difendeva Marx e Engels dalle critiche di Latouche e liquidava la decrescita come ideologia reazionaria, cercando analogie con autori passati (Feuerbach, Schiller) che auspicavano un ritorno alla natura (in seguito a delusioni dovute a processi rivoluzionari terminati in modo inatteso):

https://invidious.copyriot.xyz/watch?v=J3YhV3dMh2o

Ma oggi ha ancora senso parlare di pieno sviluppo delle forze produttive?

Questo video sul canale di Bernardo Cumbo parla di un'azienda che usa stampanti 3D per produrre case low-cost fatte di fango e paglia:

https://invidious.copyriot.xyz/watch?v=AjgUaUltD0Q

Verrebbe da dire che oggi il pieno sviluppo delle forze produttive sia già stato raggiunto.

Allo stadio attuale il progresso tecnologico permetterebbe già di togliere dalla miseria tutte le persone del mondo fornendo una casa, energia pulita, dando la possibilità di vivere in modo ecologico e senza dover vendere (alienare) la propria forza-lavoro.

Le motivazioni per cui questo non si sta realizzando sembrano più di tipo politico: una minoranza di ultra-miliardari continua a promuovere modelli insostenibili per non perdere i propri privilegi, la maggioranza della popolazione inconsapevole/indifferente in merito alla propria condizione di classe e a quella dell'ambiente (proprio perché ha introiettato i suddetti modelli), la mancanza di una forza politica di sinistra in grado di concretizzare un progetto di trasformazione sociale...

Sembra più che ad essere confutata sia stata quella visione messianica del progresso che vedeva il socialismo come punto di approdo storico fisiologico, poiché il capitalismo ad un certo punto sarebbe collassato sulle proprie contraddizioni. Finora il capitalismo ha sempre mostrato di sapersi riconfigurare e riadattare ai cambiamenti storici.

#decrescita #latouche #marx #marxismo #losurdo #progresso

Tiens, #Losurdo ça a l'air intéressant :

« l’histoire des socialismes réels [...] Imparfaites et parfois criminelles, elles doivent être resituées dans leur histoire longue (poids de la tradition autocratique, des haines entre communautés, etc.) ainsi que dans leur contexte (invasion militaire de l’Union soviétique, situation de quasi-encerclement, pressions impérialistes, etc.), et non jugées à l’aune d’une norme idéale et en dehors des données concrètes. »

https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2018/10/FONDU/59128