After Marxism

by Ronald Aronson

After Marxism calls for a new radical coalition centered around morality and utopian sensibility. The book explores the kinds of commitments, values, and approaches to social realities that may still be described as radical today. These include the determination to end every form of oppression; a freedom to combine many different theories and kinds of analysis; an open and experimental attitude; an appreciation of modernity's great promise of being on our own; an understanding that radical social change encompasses attitudes and behaviors, as well as structures and systems; and a commitment to uniting the various potential radical groups, strands, and energies into a new radical coalition, a heterogeneous "we" founded on a deep sense of solidarity.

322 pages, Paperback

First published November 23, 1994

Reviews

[Dan]

Personal. Very academic. I was mainly interested in the author, who is a very interesting and cogent thinker on society. His "Living Without God" (2008) is excellent and is overall superior to any of the big three new atheist offerings (e.g. End of Faith, God Delusion, and God is Not Great). But this book articulates at length but clearly that there is no longer a revolutionary subject on which a Marxism can ground its project. So now, Aronson claims, socialistic values must find a new outlet. A good book but recommended for those really thinking hard about getting past a formal Marxist theoretical framework.

[sologdin]

difficult years for leftists, the early 90s, wherein some succumbed to fukuyama-style delusions.