There are multiple classic books of Marxist Critique on Idealism in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, but I have never seen one about the later philosophies such as Existentialism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, etc…
Is there an author that has already given the Marxist point of view regarding those philosophies?
It can be a bit dense early on, but it gets better. Can be really enlightening at times, and people who have been to humanities classes will relate.
edit: there also an audiobook on spotify or youtube, if you prefer.
Thanks, that’s what I was looking for, crazy that I’ve never heard of it or of the author.
no problem. I didn’t knew him before too, bc he’s from India.
Not exactly what you asked for but a lot of these “post-marxist” philosophies have at least some of their roots - intentionally or not - in Proudhonisim. Proudhon wrote Philosophy on Poverty after which Marx responded with his critique, the Poverty of Philosophy, which you may find of interest.
I don’t know of any, though I’ve also never looked for them.
Quite a bit of mid-to-late 20th century idealist philosophy came from the Western “post-Marxists” themselves, with the assistance of the CIA. Almost everything I know about it I learned from Gabriel Rockhill, who studied under that school before coming to reject it.
- The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism
- The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback
- Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
- The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
- Foucault: The Faux Radical
- Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics
- Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
Thanks for the recommendations. I actually started searching for a critique after seeing how many of those philosophers call themselves Marxists or post, all the while covering with the most idealistic BS the advances that Marx brought to Philosophy and Sociology.
