Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social

Marxism too often tends to be summarized as a theory of class struggle. The rise in importance, during the second half of the twentieth century, of « new social movements » (feminism, anti-racism, ecology, LGBT movement), centered on antagonisms other than class antagonisms, thus led it to be consid...

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Main Author: Alexis Piat
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Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2024-09-01
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description Marxism too often tends to be summarized as a theory of class struggle. The rise in importance, during the second half of the twentieth century, of « new social movements » (feminism, anti-racism, ecology, LGBT movement), centered on antagonisms other than class antagonisms, thus led it to be considered a largely obsolete framework for analyzing social conflicts. The class struggle is, however, in Marx's thought, only one element among others of a more general conception of history, historical materialism. According to this conception, all social reality must fundamentally be understood as produced, conflict being no exception. Any conflict therefore appears anchored in the material conditions of production and the symbolic modalities through which it is articulated. The forms of conflicts thus appear to be ultimately determined by the mode of production in which they are inserted, which does not allow to reduce them to conflicts about production. This article aims to examine how this fundamental idea is interpreted in three variants of Marxist thought (the philosophy of Althusser, the so-called current of value criticism and the work of Deleuze and Guattari) in order to propose perspectives to the emancipatory struggles of our time and to show that historical materialism is essential to this end.
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Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
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marxism
class struggle
Althusser
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title Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
title_full Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
title_fullStr Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
title_full_unstemmed Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
title_short Cinquante nuances de rouge. Les marxismes face à la pluralisation du conflit social
title_sort cinquante nuances de rouge les marxismes face a la pluralisation du conflit social
topic marxism
class struggle
Althusser
Deleuze
Guattari
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