Structural Marxism
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Structural Marxism is an approach to Marxism based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. It was influential in France during
Jean-Paul Sartre, whose blend of existentialism and Marxist humanism was a primary target of Althusser's critique and the structural Marxist school
Sketch of Louis Althusser
Étienne Balibar
E. P. Thompson, a major critic of structural Marxism
Nicos Poulantzas
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Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he became a leading figure in the structuralist Marxist school of thought. He is best known for his the
Structural Marxism
…interpellation" to explain how subjects are constituted within social structures. The school of thought had a significant influence on figures such as Nicos Poulantzas, Étienne Balibar, and Pierre Macherey. However, it faced sustained criticism from other Marxist traditions, notably from historians like E. P. Thompson…
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Cover of the first English edition of Poulantzas's Political Power and Social Classes (1968)
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, whose fascist regimes Poulantzas analyzed