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Structural Marxism

Structural Marxism (or structuralist Marxism) is an approach to Marxism based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. It was influential in France during the late 1960s and 1970s, and also came to influence philosophers, political theorists and sociologists outside France during the…

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related to Works cited · 36
Structural Marxism → AK Press, Alex, Althusser, Althusser's Marxism, An Essay, Anti/Theses, Benton, Brill, Callinicos, Cleaver, Cornell University Press, Edinburgh, Elliott, Fall, Gregory, Harry, Influence, ISBN, Ithaca, Leeds
related to Epistemological problems and post-structuralism · 19
Structural Marxism → Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Althusser's, Althusserianism, André Glucksmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Critics, Emerging, Gulag, Maoism, Maoist-Althusserians, Marxism, Marxism's, Michel Foucault, Paris, The, The Nouveaux Philosophes, Thinkers, This, Western
related to Feminist theory · 10
Structural Marxism → Althusserian, Feminism, Ideological State Apparatuses, Juliet Mitchell's Psychoanalysis, Lacanian, Marxism, Oedipus, Several, The, Theorists
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marxism althusser structural ideology althusser's political theoretical history ideological argued theory work science social humanist new class like production philosophy

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