%0 Journal Article
%T Po czym poznać marksizm?
%A Kanda, Roman
%J Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20843933ST.20.010.11897
%N Volume 15, Issue 2
%P 123-138
%K marksizm, dyskurs i teoria, krytyka nowoczesna i krytyka nowoczesności / Marxism, discourse and theory, modern criticism and critique of modernity
%@ 1897-3035
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/po-czym-poznac-marksizm
%X 
	How Do We Recognize Marxism?

	The title of the study is a paraphrase of Gilles Deleuze’s inspiring work How Do We Recognize Structuralism? (1974). The explanation proceeds in three steps. First, the author – following Wolfgang Iser’s conception – defines the relevant differences between ‘discourse’ and ‘theory’ (W. Iser). Second, he presents Marxism as a discoursive ideal type (Max Weber’s Idealtyp) that characterizes several (seven) distinctive features: (i) totality, (ii) dialectics, (iii) base and superstructure, (iv) materialism and historization, (v) subjective and objective, (vi) true and inevitable, (vii) revolutionary practice. In the third chapter of his study, the author briefly formulates a wider sociological context; inspired by the concepts of Shmuel Eisenstadt and Cornelius Castoriadis, he defines Marxism as one of the discourses articulating the cultural project of modernity and as part of a permanent process of ‘social self-production’.

	* Tekst powstał w ramach projektu GA ČR 17-22913S, „Český literárněvědný marxismus: Nový pohled”.