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Why Marxism Has Failed, And Why Zombie-Marxism Cannot Die --" Part 1

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Here is an outline of the remainder of the essay. Check back soon for more!

  • What Marx Got Right
    1. Class Analysis
    2. Base and Superstructure
    3. Alienation of Labor
    4. Need for Growth, Inevitability of Crisis
    5. A Counter-Hegemonic World-view
  • What Marx Got Wrong
    1. Linear March of History
    2. Europe as Liberator
    3. Mysticism of the Proletariat
    4. The State
    5. A Secular Dogma
  • Hegemony over the Left
  • Zombie-Marxism and its Discontents
  • Conclusion: Beyond Marx, But Not Without Him

Footnotes
1. The idea of a zombie ideology was transmitted to me from Turbulence magazine and the "zombie-liberalism" they discuss as taking the place of neo-liberalism in the wonderful article "Life in Limbo?"
2. This framing comes to me through Ashanti Alston, the "Anarchist Panther," and his excellent essay "Beyond Nationalism, But Not Without It."

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