Slavoj Žižek, one of the Western thinkers who is familiar with Marxist terminology, published an article in Philosophy Salon on January 27, 2025, entitled “Why a Communist Must Assume that Life is Hell.”
“Eclectic thinkers can, of course, fuse and combine everything in their minds. With eclectic thinking you can fuse not only Marx and Kant, but even Marx and medieval “realist” thinkers. But for coherent thinkers, the illegal union of Marx with Kant’s philosophy must be regarded as something monstrous in the full sense of the word.”
Plekhanov was such a great thinker, and even he ended up ultimately on the reactionary side.
Plekhanov was such a great thinker, and even he ended up ultimately on the reactionary side.