Abstract
This chapter proposes a closer look to the dynamic of Marxist thought in political contexts where Marxism-Leninism as the regimes "official philosophy" provided plenty of room for a Marxist critique of the regime itself. In both the Budapest School of Critical Sociology and the in the Yugoslav Praxis Movement a group of philosophers and social theorists come to initiate a "heretical" movement directed against what they regard as a betrayal of the original meaning of Communism. From their point of view, the problem with the regimes was not that they were too socialist, but -- on the contrary -- that they were not socialist enough, not truly socialist.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | In Marx's Shadow |
| Subtitle of host publication | Power, Knowledge and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia |
| Editors | Costica Bradatan, Serguei Oushakine |
| Place of Publication | Plymouth |
| Publisher | Lexington Press |
| Pages | 37-52 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-7391-3626-3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7391-3624-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |