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A Critique of Michel Foucault and his Imposture - Nildo Viana

  MANDOSIO  , Jean-Marc.  The Longevity of an Imposture : Michel Foucault .  Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé, 2011.   A Critique of Michel Foucault and his Imposture   Nildo Viana   Jean-Marc Mandosio  is a controversial and critical author.  In his  recently released  book  on Foucault, containing two essays, one bearing the title of the book,  The Longevity of an Imposture: Michel Foucault  and the other  Foucófilos and Foucólatras  , make a devastating criticism and nothing "politically correct" (also criticized  in a passage  by the author) of the French philosopher.  For an author who does not spare even the situationists (especially Vaneigen, but the Situationist International as a whole), in this work he makes a synthetic balance of Foucault's work and presents several  critical  considerations  about it, as well as about  Foucault  . The author targets the conceptions ...

Karl Korsch's Anti-Dogmatic Marxism - Nildo Viana

  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”  ,...