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A major work on Marxism and philosophy by Georges Labica, published here with a new introduction from Stathis Kouvelakis and Panagiotis Sotiris.
Marxism and the Status of Philosophy sets out to answer key questions relating to Marxism and philosophy. What is the relation of Marxism to philosophy? Is Historical Materialism the supersession of philosophy as idealist speculation? Is there still some space left for it? Is philosophy a particular form of what we call ideology? Is philosophy destined to disappear? By returning to Marx and Engels’s theoretical and political trajectory and in particular their insistence on a radical way out of philosophy, Labica shows how any Marxist engagement with philosophy cannot be the production of just another philosophy, but must rather be an intervention against philosophy as ideology—an intervention within philosophy and its contradictions, which are the result of class struggle.
Georges Labica (1930–2009) taught philosophy at the University of Algiers after liberation and at the Nanterre (Paris X) from 1968 onwards. Actively involved in the Algerian anti-colonial struggle in the ranks of the FLN and in struggles in France, he was a member of the PCF from 1954 to 1982 and co-founded the journal Dialectiques in 1973. He wrote important studies on Arab-Muslim thought, Marx and Marxism, Robespierre, violence, and co-edited with Gérard Bensussan the Dictionnaire critique du Marxisme.
Introduction: Georges Labica, a Political and Intellectual Profile
Stathis Kouvelakis and Panagiotis Sotiris
Foreword: Guidelines
Part 1 Speaking German
1 Typology of Europe
2 The Triarchy
3 The Young Engels
Part 2 The Way Out (I): Critical Philosophy
4 The Sojourn in Philosophy
5 Critical Passages
6 Philosophy and Proletariat
7 Under the Sign of Feuerbach
Part 3 The Way Out (II): The Critique of Philosophy
8 Parricide
9 ‘It Ought to Be Changed’
10 The Lesson of Saint Max
Part 4 The Concept of Bourgeois Society
11 The Real Jew and the Sabbath Jew
12 The Upsurge of the Proletariat
13 Competition
14 The Division of Labour
Part 5 History-Ideology
15 The Material Base
16 Ideology
17 The Sign of Proudhon
18 The Standpoint of the Working Class
Conclusion The Status of Philosophy
Conclusion
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index