Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Promethean Marxism
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On Somnambulism and Structural Causality
The dominant tradition of ideological critique has struggled with this problem since at least Mannheim, who understood ideology as a kind of socially conditioned distortion, a partial perspective mistaken for a total one. The correction was, in principle, available: the free-floating intellectual. Marx’s own formulations oscillate between ideology as inverted image and ideology as material…
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Stolen Subjects: Exploitation, Alienation, and Subjectivity
Can subjectivity survive Marxism? It depends on what is meant by “subjectivity” and “Marxism.” In a certain, important sense, we are all subjects who have survived Marxism, insofar as even the question seems outdated, its tombstone marked by the fall of the Soviet Union. But even if the geopolitical power of Stalinism has been reduced…
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Inhumanist Marxism
Materialist philosophy confronts a persistent dichotomy: humanism versus anti-humanism. Marx embodies this split. The young Marx theorized alienation and proclaimed human-centricity in his theses on Feuerbach, a humanist gesture. The mature Marx analyzed capital’s cold mechanics, mapping the flows beneath production relations, an apparent turn from humanism. Yet throughout, Marx remained committed to one project:…
