Arguments Within English Marxism by Perry Anderson

Arguments Within English Marxism by Perry Anderson

Author:Perry Anderson
Language: eng
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Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)


1.PT, p. 263.

2.PT, p. 264.

3.PT, p. 265.

4.PT, pp. 265.

5.PT, pp. 265, 266.

6.See respectively Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Political Writings 1910-1920, London 1977, pp. 34-37; Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness, London 171, pp. 223-256.

7.Essays in Self-Criticism, pp. 35-36.

8.PT, p. 374.

9.PT, p. 333.

10.PT, p. 375.

11.PT, p. 332.

12.PT, p. 375.

13.PT, pp. 326-327.

14.PT, pp. 380-381.

15.PT, p. 381.

16.PT, pp. 270-271.

17.With the exception of Denmark, where Axel Larsen had uniquely led the majority of the CP into the creation of an independent socialist organization, the SF, much larger than the residual Party in 1956.

18.See For Marx, esp. pp. 55-70.

19.For Marx, p. 237.

20.Thompson cites Althusser as claiming that: ‘In the USSR men are indeed now treated without any class distinctions, that is, as persons’ (PT, p. 315). In fact, the passage quoted starts with the phrase’ The Soviets say, in our country classes have disappeared …’ etc (For Marx, p. 222, my italics). Similarly, he quotes Althusser as speaking of ‘the world opening up before the Soviets’ as one of ‘infinite vistas of progress, of science, of culture, of bread and freedom, of free development—a world that can do without shadows or tragedies’ (PT, pp. 315, 317). Again, the effect is achieved by the simple device of omitting the clause with which the sentence begins. ‘The communism to which the Soviet Union is committed is a world without economic exploitation …’ etc (For Marx, p. 238). Official Russian professions are converted, by a stroke of the pen, into Althusserian assertions.

21.See ‘Commitment in Politics’, Universities and Left Review, No 6, Spring 1959, p. 51.

22.Karl Marx’s Theory of History—A Defence, p. x.

23.‘A new religion will develop within the next few hundred years, a religion which corresponds to the development of the human race. It will come into existence with the appearance of a new great teacher’—The Sane Society, London 1956, p. 351.

24.‘The task is to create a form of community which will exemplify the pattern of the gospel and which will renew continually its repentance for its conformity to the pattern of human sin … The true Christian community will be one of poverty and prayer’—‘Its prayer will be classical prayer of Christendom. Paradoxically it is the contemporary study of Marxism which perhaps brings out most clearly what the classical methods of meditation have to say to us about the “dark night of the soul”. It is a “dark night”, an ascesis of poverty and questioning which must renew our politics. A community committed alike to politics and to prayer would serve in the renewal of the whole Church.’ Marxism: An Interpretation, London 1953. In a remarkable demonstration of ideological continuity, the book was reissued by its author, with modest adjustments for latter-day loss of faith, as Marxism and Christianity, in 1969.

25.In England, they included Raymond Williams (see Terry Eagleton and Brian Wicker, eds., From Culture to Revolution, London 1968, p. 298); New Left Review, up to the unveiling of the new Chinese foreign policy at the turn of the decade; possibly in some measure Edward Thompson



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