Status Updates From The Gramscian Moment: Philo...

Disheartening to read parts of Thomas's dismissal of "diamat" on the day of Parenti's passing. Identity of Bukharin's sociology with Soviet philosophy is inaccurate and a consequence of Western Marxist scholars only engaging with English-language studies and translations of Soviet material and their chosen Western European Marxists. Soviet scholarship was much richer than Stalin's relatively simple essays.

Great stuff on critiquing Althusser's interpretation of Gramsci without a complete rupture or dismissal of the former. Would challenge Thomas's idea of a break in Althusser's thought in the 60s vs. late 70s—a change, to be sure, but the seeds for the philosophy of the encounter were laid in Reading Capital.

Banger book so far