Open Marxism

Open Marxism is a collection of critical and heterodox Marxist schools of thought which critique state socialism[1] and party politics, stressing the need for openness to praxis and history through an anti-positivist method grounded in the "practical reflexivity" of Karl Marx's own concepts.

The sources of critical, Open Marxism (sometimes called the 'warm stream of Marxism'[13]) are many, from György Lukács' return to the philosophical roots of Marx's thinking, to council communism, the New Left, elements of Autonomism and situationism and also the Neue Marx-Lektüre of 70s Germany.

In the 1970s and 1980s, state-derivationist debates around the separation of the economic and the political under capitalism unfolded in the working group Kapitalistate and the Conference of Socialist Economists[16] journal Capital & Class, involving many of the theorists of Open Marxism and significantly influencing its theoretical development.

The authorship of the latest volume showed how far the influence of Open Marxism has spread from Europe to Latin America.

[51][52] The work of Lars T. Lih,[53] Kevin B. Anderson,[54] Kai Heron,[55]Jodi Dean,[56] Andreas Malm,[57] Antonio Negri,[58] Alberto Toscano[59] and Slavoj Zizek[60] have been representative of this trend.