... Marxist theory reification identity embodiment ...

... From the early 1920s onward, the so-called “debate on Japanese capitalism” ( Nihon shihonshugi ronso ) was the primary animating circuit around which the central opposition in Marxist theory between the Koza or Lectures faction and the Rono or Worker-farmer faction emerged. Subsequently...

... of this. Then the chapter goes on to argue that rather than seeing Žižek’s work here as a revision of Marx or Marxist theory, we can profitably understand his work as giving us a Marxism that avoids many of the pitfalls of the debates and divisions in Marxism that begin in the 1960s between those who advocate a more...

... Chapter 5 discusses the development of Marxist theory made by Vladimir Lenin and how he clarified the meaning of socialism. Lenin’s theory of imperialism and the capitalist state are analyzed, as well as his leadership during the early years of the workers’ state in Russia amid the civil war...

... Why revisit the history of Marxism today? This introductory chapter sets the stage for the book’s main theoretical developments by emphasizing the complexity with which the so-called national question has challenged Marxist theory throughout its existence. How was it possible...