New Revolutionary Marxism

  Karl Korsch's Anti-Dogmatic Marxism   Nildo Viana   Karl Korsch is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Marxism.  His contribution to the rescue of Marx's thought, deformed by social democracy and Bolshevism, and his discussion of materialist dialectics, as well as other aspects of his thinking, are permanent contributions to Marxist theory.  This extremely important role for the development of Marxism, however, did not receive due recognition, obviously due to the predominance of pseudomarxism expressed in social democracy and Bolshevism, two positions criticized by him and in visible contradiction with the same.  His works were fundamental to carry out another interpretation of Marx's thought and to deepen aspects of Marxism and one of the elements that stands out in his conception is the search for overcoming dogmatism.  In this article we will briefly discuss his thinking and highlight what he called “Non-dogmatic Marxism”  ,...

  THE CRISIS OF MARXISM Karl Korsch 1 Marxism today is in the midst of an historical and theoretical crisis. It is not simply a crisis within the  Marxist movement , but a crisis of  Marxism itself . This crisis reveals itself externally in the complete collapse of the dominant position - partially illusory, but also partially real - that Marxism held during the pre-World War I era in the European working class movement. It reveals itself  internally  in the transformation of Marxist theory and practice, a transformation which is most immediately apparent in Marxists' altered position vis-à-vis their own national state as well as with respect to the bourgeois system of national states as a whole. It is deceptive and even false to see the theoretical origins of the present crisis as resulting either from a perversion or an oversimplification of Marx's and Engels' revolutionary theory at the hands of their successors. It is equally misleading to juxtapose this deg...