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Violence and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Marx to Žižek

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  • Christopher J. Finlay

    (Research Fellow, Geary Institute, University College Dublin & Dublin European Institute)

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The purpose of this essay is to explore the relationship between revolution and violence in Marxism and in a series of texts drawing on Marxian theory. Part 1 outlines the basic normative frameworks which determine the outer limits of permissible violence in Marxism. Part 2 presents a critical analysis of a series of later discussions – by Sorel, Fanon, and Žižek – which transformed the terms in which violence was discussed by developing one particular aspect of Marxist thought. By teasing out the implications of revolutionary theory for the commission and permission of violence, it is possible to specify those points at which it tends towards excess. This in turn helps clarify the limits to revolutionary violence that an adequate normative theory should establish.

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  • Christopher J. Finlay, 2006. "Violence and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Marx to Žižek," Working Papers 200601, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucd:wpaper:200601
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    1. Myrtaj Mrika Limani, 2021. "The Ideology and Agency of Kosovar Albanian Marxist Groups in the Demonstrations of 1981," Comparative Southeast European Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 69(2-3), pages 183-203, September.

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    Keywords

    Revolution; Violence; Terrorism; Communism; Marx; Engels; Marxism; Sorel; Lukács; Benjamin; Fanon; Sartre; Žižek;
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    JEL classification:

    • B14 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist

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