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What is at Stake in the "Western Marxism" Debate? (cosmonautmag.com)
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Reviewing the fallout over Gabriel Rockhill's critiques of Western Marxism, Donald Parkinson argues the controversy is ultimately a battle over what kind of intellectual culture the left needs.

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[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 1 points 10 hours ago

Is it better if I say idealism? Marx was trying to flesh out materialism but only had Feuerbach as any good example before him, and was trying to establish a rigorous materialism. So I consider that his Hegelianism he was still working through, but maybe it helps if we just say that Marx still had some idealism that he needed to work through to get to a rigorous materialism (dialectical, of course)?

You used the word "feeling" in your definition of alienation as described in TGI. Meanwhile the mature versions of Commodity fetishism and exploitation are direct relations to production that are measurable. I would call this advancing past a hegelianism towards a scientific notion