For Marx, against Althusser

What is the nature of art under capitalism? Rex Dunn responds to Paul Demarty

I disagree with most of what Demarty says in his article, ‘What is art and can it survive?’¹ for three main reasons: Firstly, he ignores the fact that classical philosophy and aesthetics are integral to Marx’s thought as a whole. Secondly, there is a nihilist tendency in his thinking. Thirdly, he has a mechanical, undialectical view of bourgeois institutions - that they are merely a means to dispense patronage and regulate mass consumption; hence we have the elitist privileging of high art over low art.

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Right’s heresy hunt

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Life in the bubble

Paul Demarty argues that the growing culture of brittle denunciations only hurts the left

Pro-Zionists are false friends

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Not so new economics

Michael Roberts reports on John McDonnell’s plan to ‘transform capitalism’

Closed Marxism

Mike Macnair reviews: John Holloway, 'In, against and beyond capitalism: the San Francisco lectures', Kairos/PM Press, 2016, pp85 (plus preface), £10.59

Two reactionary camps

Our class can gain nothing by voting for either of the two options, argues Peter Manson

£515 in five days

Robbie Rix needs to make some gains