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is a branch of ontology rather than as a political movement. This ontology is grounded in the idea that, like in psychoanalysis, an absolute consciousness of the self is impossible to attain.

For i ek, Marxism and psychoanalysis share a common core idea that an absolute consciousness of the self is impossible to attain. Marx proposed that the subject is formed in the act of economic exchange and class struggle, whereas Freud's focus was the development of self through an Oedipal-stage that challenges the patriarchal authority of the father' (aitkin)

is a dialectical means for continuing to do philosophy in that it requires the very non-identity between subject and object which lukacs' concept of the proletariat eliminated.

But for Adorno, Marxism provided a dialectical means for continuing to do philosophy and necessitating the very non-identity between subject and object which Lukacs' concept of the proletariat eliminated.

is a guarantee of being on the right side of history.

A penetrating historian of the nineteenth century, Hobsbawm has learned nothing from the twentieth. This is to be expected. For him as for Eagleton, Marxism is more than a bunch of theories... it is a guarantee of being on the right side of history. Seeing the communist project for what it really was would be tantamount to admitting that their lives have been without meaning.'

is a matter of images, a secularization of the messianic age in the image of the classless society.

For Benjamin, Marxism is a matter of images. Benjamin writes that Marx correctly secularized the representation of the messianic age in the image of the classless society. The classless society is an image, an analogy for the messianic age. Such an image, argues Benjamin, benefits the revoltuionary politics of the proletariat, in a sense reminiscent of Sorel's positive evaluation of the image of the general strike, worked over by Benjamin in 'Zur Kritik der Gewalt' (1921). 'History breaks down into images not stories,' he notes.

is a method of analysis and an instrument of critique and social transformation.

For Marcuse, Marxism is a method of analysis and instrument of critique and social transformation and is not a dogma or system of absolute knowledge. Reading . . .

is a method which does not displace other theories but subsumes them within its own program.

for Jameson, Marxism is not just another theory for open exchange on the methodological market. A number of grounds are presented for the argument that Marxism is more than a theory, the main one being its ability to provide a total picture within which other methods and interpretations may find their place... that is, a Marxist method does not displace other theories but subsumes them within its own program.

is a method which provides a schema for understanding history as a movement from class conflict to a society of rigorous equality without classes.

For Kojeve, Marxism provides the schema for understanding history as a movement from class conflict (the master/slave conflict at the level of collectivities) to a society without classes. The freedom of a rigorous equality is the freedom of citizens equal before a law they have made themselves.

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