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| Title: |
Spectres of Class: Marxism, Deconstruction and the Politics of Affiliation |
| Author: |
Abbinnett, Ross |
| Appeared in: |
Journal for cultural research |
| Paging: | Volume 10 (2006) nr. 1 pages 1-22 |
| Year: |
2006-01 |
| Contents: |
The paper is concerned with the reaction of the left to the publication of Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx (SM). My argument is that this reaction has, in general, been unwilling to engage with the ethico-political significance of Derrida's thought, and that it has concentrated largely on reiterating certain protocols which ought to govern the inheritance of Marx's political provocations. I have taken three particularly vociferous critics of SM as exemplary of this attempt to designate the proper conditions of affiliation to Marxism: Aijaz Ahmad, Alex Callinicos and Tom Lewis. I argue that each of these thinkers has ignored the concept of the question which informs Derrida's attempt to remain faithful to “a certain spirit” of Marxism, and that consequently they have failed to take seriously his attempts to transform conventional notions of class solidarity. In the final section I will examine Fredric Jameson's attempt to restage the encounter between Marxism and deconstruction, and to reconfigure the idea of class in the light of Derrida's remarks on logic of revolutionary condensation and historical necessity. My aim is to show that the apparent homology between Derrida and Jameson is ruptured by the latter's insistence upon the “allegorical” configuration of class solidarities, and the former's commitment to the de-affiliating questions (of hospitality) that arise from global organization of capitalism. I will always wonder if the idea of Marxism—the self-identity of Marxist discourse or system or even a science of philosophy—is not incompatible with the event-Marx. (Derrida 1993) |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
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