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Navigating the Intricacies of Western Marxism with Stephen Hammal

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Hegelian Marxism: A Critical Analysis

The word Western had reentered our discourse in a powerful way around the Ukraine war. We know exactly what the word Western means when we say it, we mean inside the NATO security umbrella. This is completely different from Perry Anderson's usage of Western Marxism. They don't see that for Anderson in 1977, that Marxism and his view had become so sclerotic in official communism. In all those places that had been touched by actually existing socialism, only intellectually interesting part was cultivated within the NATO security umbrellas.

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