05.26.07
Marxism, Liberalism and the Eonic Effect/Model
[Marxism] The End of State-Socialism and The Future of Marxism-Part 2 By Dr. Nasir Khan – Norway
Marxism has been critiqued since the 1880′s, when most the key objections came forth. Thus, to say that a Marxist critique will continue is true in one way, but it is also the case that ‘Marxists’ are doomed to never learn.
A double critique reconstruction of liberalism(s) and marxism(s) arises as a side effect of the study of the eonic effect and its attendant model: this creates a matrix for construction wholesale of a spectrum of such theories.
The vocabulary used in history, historiography, economics and philosophy has
been enriched with new concepts and dimension in Marx. The general
categories, which have become words of everyday use in the present century
in social and political thought, owe much to Marx. Here we can mention the
proletariat including the dictatorship of the proletariat, class including
the class struggle, class warfare, class consciousness, alienation including
the fetishism of commodities, and ideology including inverse consciousness,
etc. I would like to finish this article with an excellent summing up by
Professor Paul Thomas of the University of California:³It is no doubt easier to imagine a world without Marx than a world without
revolution, capitalism, socialism and communism. But in the world we
actually inhabit, those facts of life have still to be seen through Marx. He
may not have coined any of those terms, but he set his seal decisively on
all of them, so much so that it remains impossible to discuss them without
bringing him in. Marx was not alone having advocated revolution or in having
believed in the need for drastic changes in order to attain human autonomy,
as the nearest glance at the wonderland of nineteenth-century revolutionism
will reveal. But his sense of the tension between the depravity and the
promise of capitalism was unique.² (Thomas 1991, 24.)In my mind there is no doubt that as long as capitalism as a system of
particular socio-economic relations exists, Marxism as a critique of it,
both at theoretical and practical levels, will continue to be a powerful
force in the service of mankind.