Post‐Marxism and the new social movements
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie
- Vol. 30 (3) , 316-336
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1993.tb00940.x
Abstract
Cette communication jette un regard critique sur plusieurs tendances du néo‐marxisme et du post‐marxisme ainsi que sur les tentatives de théoriser les nouveaux mouvements sociaux. L'auteur estime qu'on a trop vite fait de laisser tomber une bonne partie des principes fondamentaux de l'économie politique en analysant les nouveaux mouvements sociaux, alors qu'on évoque ces měmes mouvements comme confirmation des certains aspects problématiques de la théorie marxiste. Les problèmes découlent en partie du fait qu'on a voulu tirer des généralisations à partir d'observations très partielles d'un nombre limité de mouvements. Or, le travail d'analyse théorique doit tenir compte de l'économie politique de ces mouvements tout en s'enrichissant des analyses produites par les mouvements eux‐měmes.The paper offers a critique of several theoretical trends in neo‐and post‐Marxism and of new social movement theory, contending that many of the central tenets of political economy have been too quickly abandoned in analysing the new social movements and that, at the same time, these movements have too often been used to shore up other problematic areas of Marxian analysis. Some of these problems arise from generalizations made from very partial views of only certain movements. Theoretical work needs to include the political economy of these movements and at the same time learn from the analyses generated by these movements themselves.Keywords
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