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Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective

Name: Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective
Brand: Cosmonaut Press
SKU: 9781953273055
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Contributors:

Michael Sommer, Maciej Zurowski (Translator), Mike Macnair (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Cosmonaut Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Political Ideologies, Commentary & Opinion

Book Topic:

Capitalism, Fascism & Totalitarianism

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Release Date:

2022-01-23

ISBN 13:

9781953273055

Weight:

0.25 lbs

Size:

7.48 x 4.72 x 0.26 inches

Pages:

124

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Around the turn of the century, anti-fascism in Germany underwent a transformation. Instead of denouncing the prevailing social order as the natural breeding ground of fascist movements, the focus of the critique shifted onto regressive, unenlightened, or "abridged" forms of anti-capitalism. Asserting that capitalism is "abstract rule," it set out to accuse its various adversaries of easily sliding into antisemitism, construed by anti-fascists as a "hatred of the abstract."

The theory behind this new type of anti-fascism was originally devised by Moishe Postone in his seminal essay "Anti-Semitism and National Socialism." However, as Michael Sommer convincingly demonstrates, Postone's arguments are based on a misreading of Marx and are theoretically unsustainable. What is more, they have provided the groundwork for an "uncritical critique", aiding in the degeneration of anti-fascism from a left-wing endeavor into an ideology that is fully affirmative of liberal capitalism.

This translation of Sommer's German-language text of 2014 comes with an extensive new introduction by Mike Macnair that links these changes to more recent developments in the Anglophone world, as well as situating Postone's theory in a broader historical context.

About the Author
Zurowski, Maciej: - Maciej Zurowski is a translator working in German, Polish, and English. He has translated political biographies of Otto Bauer and Ernest Mandel and historical texts by Karl Kautsky, Ernst Niekisch, Clara Zetkin, and others. He has also written for Melodie und Rhythmus, Weekly Worker, and Jacobin.Macnair, Mike: - Mike Macnair teaches law at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. He is a regular writer for the Weekly Worker. He is the author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and the co-author with Jamie Gough of Gay Liberation in the 80s (1985).Sommer, Michael: - Michael Sommer researches Marx's theory of capitalism. In 2008, together with Dieter Wolf, he published a critique of the Greek-French economist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis entitled Imaginäre Bedeutungen und historische Schranken der Erkenntnis. Together with Susann Witt-Stahl, he edited the volume "Antifa heisst Luftangriff!" Regression einer revolutionären Bewegung (2014), in which the text translated for this book was originally published.

Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective

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