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Marxism without revolution: towards a history of discouragement.

From: symploke  |  Date: 1/1/2006  |  Author: Shumway, David R.

Any comparison of Marxism with religion is a two-way street, in which the former is not necessarily discredited by its association with the later.

--Fredric Jameson (1981)

Fredric Jameson has asserted the need for a theory of discouragement. I will leave the theorizing to him and follow instead another Jamesonian command, the one that says, "always historicize." I will argue, however, that our present discouragement is not rooted especially in any current ...

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