The Double Disavowals of Theory's “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment

The review article provides a critical engagement with Fadi A. Bardawil's Revolution and Disenchantment. Bardawil's historical ethnographic research claims to provide an account of the failures of Marxism in the Levant. The review proposes that Bardawil's theoretical and intellectual commitments may have resulted in projecting failure retroactively on an entire field of theory, Marxism, thereby foreclosing a critical engagement with concepts in relation to praxis.