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g a development against the grain of the political evolution of the pcf itself 133 althusser also developed a sophisticated theory of ideology arguing that it functions through ideological state apparatuses isas like the school and the family to reproduce the relations of production 134 italian developments edit the scientific or della volpean school of marxism emerged in italy in the late 1950s as a critique of the humanist and historicist tradition of gramsci 135 thinkers in this school sought to recover the human subjective dimension in the face of both the sclerosis of orthodox marxism and the growing influence of technology but were radically opposed to that put forward by the hegelo existentialists 136 its founder galvano della volpe rejected the hegelian legacy in marxism and sought to ground it in a rigorously scientific and materialist epistemology 137 influenced by david hume immanuel kant and the logical positivists della volpe argued for a moral galileanism that would apply the methods of the natural sciences to the social world 138 he developed a concept of totality based on what he called a tauto heterological logic which recognized both the identity and the difference between distinct elements in contrast to the pseudo reconciliation of hegel s dialectic 139 his most prominent follower lucio colletti extended this critique to all of hegelian marxism in works like marxism and hegel 1969 colletti argued that the hegelian tradition was fundamentally anti scientific and idealist 140 he identified a sharp opposition between the bad infinity of hegel s dialectic which absorbed all finitude into a speculative whole and the materialist principle of real opposition found in kant 141 142 colletti s critique extended to the frankfurt school whom he dismissed as reactionary luddites for their critique of science and even to marx himself whom he ultimately concluded was an inconsistent thinker who had failed to purge his work of its hegelian dialectical elements this led to his abandonment of marxism in the mid 1970s 143 later theorists edit ernst bloch ernst bloch was a highly original thinker who sought to graft a gnostic and apocalyptic style onto marxism which he interpreted as a doctrine of utopian hope 144 his magnum opus the principle of hope 1954 59 explores the utopian impulse throughout history from daydreams and fairy tales to architecture and religion for bloch marxism was the concrete utopia that provided the scientific means to realize humanity s oldest dreams 145 he argued for the continued relevance of religion which he saw as preserving a permanent indestructible root that could be preserved in a futuristic marxism 146 herbert marcuse herbert marcuse another member of the original frankfurt school became one of the most influential western marxist thinkers in the 1960s particularly among the new left in eros and civilization 1955 he synthesized marx and sigmund freud arguing that advanced industrial society enforced a surplus repression of instinct that was no longer necessary for human survival he envisioned a non repressive civilization based on libidinal liberation 147 his most famous work one dimensional man 1964 presented a bleak picture of a totalitarian consumer society that had absorbed all forms of opposition by satisfying material needs and manipulating consciousness 148 having concluded that the industrial working class was structurally integrated into the capitalist system and no longer a revolutionary force marcuse looked to marginalized groups students ethnic minorities and intellectuals as the new agents of radical change advocating a great refusal of the existing order 149 jürgen habermas jürgen habermas was the leading figure of the second generation of the frankfurt school moving away from the pessimism of adorno and horkheimer habermas sought to ground critical theory on a new foundation 150 in knowledge and human interests 1968 he distinguished between different knowledge constitutive interests the technical interest of the empirical sciences the practical interest of the hermeneutic disciplines and the emancipatory interest of critical theory 151 152 in a radical break with classical marxism he replaced the concepts of productive forces and relations of production with a distinction between labour instrumental action and interaction communicative action a schema derived from the early hegel and the sociology of talcott parsons 153 his later work culminating in the two volume the theory of communicative action 1981 developed a theory of communicative rationality habermas argued that modern society has seen the colonization of the lifeworld the sphere of symbolic interaction and shared understanding by the system the economy and the state which operates on the logic of instrumental rationality 154 155 he defended the unfulfilled project of modernity and posits an ideal speech situation free from domination as the normative basis for a rational and democratic society 156 critique and legacy edit the legacy of western marxism has been a subject of extensive debate in the late 1950s georg lukács denounced much of western marxism particularly the work of the frankfurt school for its pessimism and its distance from revolutionary politics he characterized its proponents as dwelling in a grand hotel abyss a beautiful hotel equipped with every comfort on the edge of an abyss of nothingness of absurdity 157 russell jacoby has countered that this critique ignores the political context of the period arguing that the frankfurt school s pessimism was a realistic response to the rise of fascism and stalinism he contrasts lukács s grand hotel abyss with the hotel lux in moscow a residence for foreign communists where many including prominent figures who had opposed the early western marxists were arrested and killed during stalin s purges 158 j g merquior argues that the movement s defining flaw was its embrace of kulturkritik which led it to reject historical analysis in favor of sweeping often romantic indictments of modern civilization in his view this resulted in a theoreticism that produced little of value for sociological or historical understanding 159 he further contends that while western marxism claimed to revive hegel it often adopted an ethicist or moralist posture more akin to johann gottlieb fichte or even neo kantianism pitting an abstract ought against the reality of the historical process 160 the frankfurt school s critique of instrumental reason for example expanded into a wholesale condemnation of science and technology which lucio colletti described as a view where science was a child of capital 161 anderson concluded his 1974 essay by suggesting that the student and worker uprisings beginning with may 1968 in france heralded a new historical period for the first time in fifty years the possibility of a reunification of marxist theory and mass revolutionary practice in the west had reappeared such a reunification would in his view mean the extinction of the western marxist tradition whose existence was defined by the very divorce it might overcome 162 jacoby offered a different assessment arguing against anderson s view of western marxism as an unfortunate detour jacoby contends that the tradition s philosophical turn was an advance to a reexamination of marxism necessary to challenge the ethos of success that drained the critical impulse of orthodox marxism 163 for jacoby the dialectic of defeat that defines western marxism is not simply a sign of failure but a theoretical approach that salvages insights from a history of loss arguing that defeat may enclose future victories in a way that the uncritical imitation of past successes cannot 164 in the 1970s and 1980s the concept of totality at the heart of western marxism came under sustained attack from post structuralism thinkers like michel foucault and jean françois lyotard rejected what they saw as the totalizing and repressive nature of grand narratives like marxism 165 foucault argued that the desire to understand the whole of society was a dangerous illusion that ignored the dispersed localized and polymorphous techniques of subjugation that constitute power 166 for lyotard the nostalgia for the whole and the one was a terroristic impulse that must be resisted 167 this challenge led many former western marxists to abandon the concept of totality in favor of a new emphasis on difference fragmentation and contingency 168 see also edit communism portal philosophy portal budapest school cultural studies freudo marxism list of contributors to marxist theory marxist cultural analysis neo marxism open marxism political marxism post marxism praxis school situationist international critique of political economy references edit merquior 1986 pp 9 10 merquior 1986 p 10 jay 1984 p 1 fn 2 1 2 jacoby 1981 p 59 merquior 1986 p 11 jay 1984 p 1 1 2 anderson 1976 p 29 anderson 1976 p 42 anderson 1976 pp 16 20 42 1 2 anderson 1976 p 32 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