Reading for an exam and the author just states:
the structuralist thinking of Marx and Durkheim, for example, operates within a largely positivistic framework.
Seriously, the more of these mainstream academia books I read the more I feel like none of these people have actually spent any real time reading Marx or trying to understand marxist theory.
On positivism and Marxism from my other self-appointed readings
No point to this post really, I just feel increasingly disillusioned about my ability to ever write a Marxist dissertation in Western academia, one that would actually pass. There aren’t even anyone to teach me or guide me in it in my field, the most Marxist guy I’ve found is firmly a Frankfurt school type.
Real.
Honestly I feel like most of my time studying and reading Marxist stuff these past 5-6 years has been about eventually realising 99% of the modern western literature and “schools” and thinkers are useless and wrong. And that NOBODY FUCKING READS MARX AND ENGELS.
Like please give me back the time I wasted reading Debord. PLEASE.
And those few that claim they did only talk about alienation and yet typically don’t really seem to understand what Marx meant by it.
I particularly hate how they try to paint many, clearly not at all Marxist, writers like Bourdieu or the critical realist guy Bashkar as somehow Marxist.