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Marxism, Asia, and the 1990s

Marxism, Asia, and the 1990s I Marxism, Asia, and the 1990s nation of class struggle. T h e Marxists of the then “today” extended class struggle to the point of expanding class categories to include almost anything which might be described as “dominating” or “wretched,” and the Marxists of the then “tomorrow” engaged in projects which lost all contact with what Claudia Pozzana, in her contribution to this volume, calls “reality.”3 But, for all the caveats, the mood at that time was exciting! Three decades later, the left is far from excited and the excited are far from left. Marxists are in disarray. Many are not sure whether the disasters of the last half century, attributed to Marxism, are actually due to Marxism, to the fallibility of its practitioners, or to the infusion of Marxism with other philosophical strands. Some Marxists, however, who remember the copious literature on the complex determination of ideology, would look askance at that problem. Only undialectical theorists, they would say, would waste their time deciding whether to assign blame for the tragedy of the Holy Inquisition on Christianity, on the failings of its agents, or on the infusion of religious doctrines with secular power. While Christians might say, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
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10.1215/10679847-3-2-632
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I Marxism, Asia, and the 1990s nation of class struggle. T h e Marxists of the then “today” extended class struggle to the point of expanding class categories to include almost anything which might be described as “dominating” or “wretched,” and the Marxists of the then “tomorrow” engaged in projects which lost all contact with what Claudia Pozzana, in her contribution to this volume, calls “reality.”3 But, for all the caveats, the mood at that time was exciting! Three decades later, the left is far from excited and the excited are far from left. Marxists are in disarray. Many are not sure whether the disasters of the last half century, attributed to Marxism, are actually due to Marxism, to the fallibility of its practitioners, or to the infusion of Marxism with other philosophical strands. Some Marxists, however, who remember the copious literature on the complex determination of ideology, would look askance at that problem. Only undialectical theorists, they would say, would waste their time deciding whether to assign blame for the tragedy of the Holy Inquisition on Christianity, on the failings of its agents, or on the infusion of religious doctrines with secular power. While Christians might say,

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