Abstract Modern communism crosses originally philosophy on the ground of dialectics, in particular on the Hegelian concept of the Aufhebung, as in the definition of communism in The German Ideology: welche den jetzingen Zustand aufhebt. The class party, especially in its Stalinist version, has stabilized the Aufhebung and the relationships between politics and philosophy in the ‘discourse’ of the «world view of the Marxist-Leninist party». The worldwide political configuration of the 60s, has submitted to radical testing the value of the class party, as condition for a rethinking of the philosophical categories of Hegelian dialectics with respect to revolutionary classism. Althusser, around 1963-1964, explores the constitutive instability of the intersection of communism and materialist questioning the postulate of a «simple contradiction upstream of each process » and therefore of a «One» as the origin and the goal of all existence. Aware of those questions posed by Althusser, in the 60s Mao manifested a symptomatic philosophical embarrassment. We can ask if Mao’s formula of those years, «one divides into two», though a result of decisive political stubbornness, was also a philosophical thesis capable to prevent the «return to the original One», as expressed in the formula «two combines into one», which in fact Yang Xianzhen intended as complementary to that of Mao.
Claudia Pozzana Althusser and Mao: a missed encounter? In Il liuto e i libri, a cura di M.Abbiati e F.Greselin, Ca Foscari edizioni, 2014 pp.725
POZZANA, CLAUDIA
2014
Abstract
Abstract Modern communism crosses originally philosophy on the ground of dialectics, in particular on the Hegelian concept of the Aufhebung, as in the definition of communism in The German Ideology: welche den jetzingen Zustand aufhebt. The class party, especially in its Stalinist version, has stabilized the Aufhebung and the relationships between politics and philosophy in the ‘discourse’ of the «world view of the Marxist-Leninist party». The worldwide political configuration of the 60s, has submitted to radical testing the value of the class party, as condition for a rethinking of the philosophical categories of Hegelian dialectics with respect to revolutionary classism. Althusser, around 1963-1964, explores the constitutive instability of the intersection of communism and materialist questioning the postulate of a «simple contradiction upstream of each process » and therefore of a «One» as the origin and the goal of all existence. Aware of those questions posed by Althusser, in the 60s Mao manifested a symptomatic philosophical embarrassment. We can ask if Mao’s formula of those years, «one divides into two», though a result of decisive political stubbornness, was also a philosophical thesis capable to prevent the «return to the original One», as expressed in the formula «two combines into one», which in fact Yang Xianzhen intended as complementary to that of Mao.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
