cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/58586
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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Along with Anwar Shaikh and Vijay Prashad, I rank Gabriel Rockhill as one of the most important corrective intellectuals of Western Marxism in the last century
We have not seen theoreticians of this caliber since the first half of the twentieth century
Losurdo? He is the inspiration for the debate today, and standardized the framework within which we discuss it.
His contributions about Hegel alone are like huge, though not yet widespread. Let alone his takedown of Western Marxism!
I’d include him too, absolutely