As Hegel wrote in 1807, “It is not difficult to see that ours is a birth-time and a transition to a new era.” Just as Schoenberg burst out of the constraint of keys, so the forces of production, no longer fettered by the relations of production, burst forth.
This is, in part, old language, but just as post-structuralism preserved elements of structuralism, post-Marxism transcends Marxism without discarding all of it.
The dialectic persists even after the great upheaval, if there will be one.
Sitting in the sixth arrondissement with a veteran of the French Communist Party who was unable to join her screenwriter husband in California because the McCarran-Walter Act prohibited members of the CP from coming to America, I said, “I suppose I have wandered into the camp which says ‘There is no contradiction.’
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