Kultura (Skopje) (Dec 2014)
Каrl Marx: The Cultural Memory of the Macedonian People and the Peoples of the Eastern Bloc – Reception and Percertion
Abstract
The severe economic crisis raised the question: Was Marx right? Or, as Terry Eagleton writes: WHY Marx was right. A reactualization of his ideas, his philosophy or his diagnosis and cures, as well as his economic and social studies, has recently become attractive once again. The acceptance and reactualization of Marx these days, especially in the Western countries, could bring us/open alternative ways of practicing politics, policy making and activism (take, for example, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement); or non-acceptance of Marx and a further global crisis could lead to a rebirth of the extreme right. Are Marx's ideas a philosophy, a view of the world or a practical "know-how"? "Marx was right about self-destruction of capitalism", says Nouriel Roubini. Does he inspire and will be inspiring new tendencies and ways of (more or less) global activism and are his ideas a phenomenon that will redefine global politics and society? Are Marx's ideas truly part of cultural memory in the so called Eastern block or were they perverted by the past system(s), which was/were using this philosophy for re-creation of its own bourgeoisie. What is today’s /nowadays reception and perception of Marx in these countries and how do people react to the possibility of their memory becoming their present tomorrow!?
