МАРКСИЗАМ НА ПРОБИ ИСТОРИЈЕ
MARXISM AT THE TEST OF HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The actuality and significance of marxism has been the subject of lively and controversial discussion in course of the eighties. The dominant thesis was the one of the crisis of marxism, of its being surpassed and of the impossibility to provide the answers to the questions of our times. While reviewing the results of these discussions, the author endeavours the following: (a) to identify the themes by applying theory and method thereof, as well as the problems and dilemmas of marxism (discrediting of official marxism, the crisis of legitimacy, unresolved contradictions of Marx’ thinking); (b) to analyze in a critical way the „high tides and ebb tides” of marxism in Yugoslavia (tendencies of ideological and intellectual becoming lazy of the ruling communist party, intellectual ostracism, complex relationship between marxism and the global society); (c) to indicate provisional answers to composite questions and problems which have put both socialism and marxism at the serious test of history (critical confronting with the contradictions and insufficiencies of Marx’theory and plea for a theoretical dialogue regarding the new project of socialism). Settling of these problems are of prime importance for the historical outcome of the present-day crisis of marxist theory and of socialism. In contrast to negative trend in contemporary marxism (namely, the crisis of the official marxism and the new orthodoxy), the author considers that revolutionary forces and authentic humanistic contents of Marx’ thinking have not exhausted their creative possibilities. Contemporary nihilistic criticism and the unilateral rejection of marxism mean a great danger, since in such a way radical emancipatory movements of the working class and of other social forces of the revolution may be left without the intellectual compass and without a developed revolutionary strategy.

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