A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)

established and strictly imposed for paedagogical purposes, only last for a period of time and the language is constantly changi ...

Chapter Four The Marxist Tradition Two Marxists converse with us about language ‘There is no Marxist philosophy of language’ is ...

multitude of Marxist authors have discussed language. I have already mentioned the Vietnamese Marxist Tran Duc Thao. But we can ...

was one of relief. After the damage done by the Lysenko affair and the doctrine counter-posing proletarian science to bourgeois ...

the prevailing revisionism, and in Marcellesi and Gardin’s manual, where they are submitted to a critical discussion. In this ma ...

The paedagogical clarity of these remarks cannot be denied. But readers will doubtless have noted the dark irony of the use on f ...

means that, despite Stalin’s best efforts, it did not ‘eliminate’ them. We shall therefore inspect the Russian language not for ...

In order to measure the distance between Stalin and Marxist orthodoxy on this point, it is sufficient to reread Bukharin’s manua ...

immediately and directly, without waiting for changes in the base. That is why the sphere of action of language, which embraces ...

and ‘class languages’. Naturally, every ‘class language’ will have its ‘class’ grammar – a ‘proletarian’ grammar or a ‘bourgeois ...

So we see that even the great Marxist leader does not avoid contradictions – which is only natural. On the one hand, he seems to ...

appearances (the linguist in a white coat in his laboratory) combined with literary and poetic reality: our linguist is, first a ...

language and superstructure. If a language is the vector of a conception of the world (‘even in the slightest manifestation of a ...

tendency possessed by this distortable structure to alter, to become a different structure. Language is, therefore, less a struc ...

its anchorage in the bodies of speakers, its expressiveness. We are clearly dealing with a primitivist myth. But this myth allow ...

the domination of the feudal model adapted to the new conjuncture. Pasolini’s example is a classic one: the extension of the ‘vu ...

past conjunctures and experience (and sources of experience that are present for the poet, who brings them back to life in his t ...

The founding fathers: Marx and Engels The harvest is sparse, but not non-existent: a few digressions on language by Marx, main ...

It is clear that scientific assertion is the language in which the most mythical of myths comes to be formulated. The paragraph ...

The second thesis concerns the materialnature of language: Man’s first object – man – is nature, sense perception; and the parti ...