Socialist theory development last 50 years
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How has socialist theory developed in the last fifty years? I was inspired to start this topic by a topic on revleft about modern contemporary writers and modern works on socialist theory.
The last fifty years? The only thing that comes to mind is the incorporation of ecological theory. You could add, even though they were first put forward in the previous thirty years (but they were refined and developed, especially the first, in the 1950s and 60s)(a) the cultural criticism of capitalism of the Frankfurt School, i.e criticism of the poor quality as well as the lack of quantity (material poverty) of life under capitalism.(b) the theory of state capitalism and of a collective owning and exploiting class on the basis of them monopolising the state where the means of production are state owned.
The "Political Marxism" of Brenner and Meiksins Wood. The restatement of class struggle and history as the central factor of Marxian theory, as apposed to "structuralist" interpretations."Value Form theory" as inspired by the translation of I.I Rubin.Depends what you mean by "socialist theory"…With reguards to Marx stuff there's a run through of the arguments in Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho's "Marx's Capital" though they neglect to mention Kliman and the TSSI.
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