Open Marxism by Christos Memos - 9781350073326

Open MarxismCritical Theory as Militant Enlightenment\nAuthor(s): Christos Memos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350073326, 978-1350073326\nSynopsis\nBringing together the various heterodox traditions, groups and scholars that came under the heading of Open Marxism for the first time, this book assesses the evolution of Open Marxism from the initial usage of the term by Kostas Axelos in France in the 1950s and the journal, Arguments, principally the anarchist Marx of Maximilien Rubel and the Libertarian Marxism of Daniel Gurin, through Open Marxism as it was developed in Eastern Europe, especially in the scholarly work of Karel Kosik in Czechoslovakia, the work of the Polish Open Marxists and the Praxis group in Yugoslavia, to Johannes Agnolis work in post-[tel]West) Germany, and finally to the work developed by Bonefeld, Clarke, Gunn and Holloway within the framework of the Conference of Socialist Ec.