Wie die Gewerkschaftsbewegung im Zweiten Deutschen Kaiserreich können heutige intersektionale Bewegungen die Selbstorganisation von Marginalisierten bewerkstelligen, die sich dadurch ihrer Marginalisierung entledigen können. Das Motto von Platypus lässt sich so wie folgt reformulieren: Nicht die Linke ist tot, bloß der Marxismus.
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Last winter, on their radio show Radical Minds on WHPK-FM Chicago, Spencer A. Leonard and Watson Ladd interviewed Ben Lewis, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and co-author and translator, together with Lars T. Lih, of Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in Halle (2011). The interview originally was broadcast on December 6, 2011. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation.
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Hungarian literary critic and political theorist Georg Lukács is generally recognized, along with thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci and Rosa Luxemburg, as one of the most influential intellectual figures of twentieth century Marxism. And while Lukács’ reading of Marx is possibly the most sophisticated and intellectually rigorous to be found in the century and a half long trajectory of historical materialism, his legacy suffers from the “misfortune” that, unlike Gramsci and Luxemburg, he survived what is known as the heroic period of Third International Marxism: the late teens and early twenties.
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