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 METAMORPHOSES OF MARXISM   Steven Gouldner   This text was originally written in 1990. In the 2000s a formally corrected version appeared. The current text is already a third version, with a slightly greater change, with some broader formal changes to meet the need for this publication. The content is the same, only the form and some small details are the novelty. The reason for this small formal change and details is with the objective of increasing its precision, its coherence, and also to accompany the development of the author's thought, as it was possible to effect a deepening after 30 years of his writing. The text's theme is the supposed crisis of Marxism that is explained through its metamorphoses and confusion between Marxism and pseudomarxism. How to explain the supposed “crisis of Marxism”? This is the initial question and starting point and the conclusion is that there is no crisis of Marxism, because such ...