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Post-Marxism dates from the late 1960s; several trends and events of that period influenced its development. The weakness of the [[Russia]]n [[Communist]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] paradigm became evident beyond Russia. This happened concurrently with the occurrence internationally of the [[French May|student riots of 1968]], the rise of [[Maoism | Maoist theory]], and the proliferation of commercial [[television]], which covered in its broadcasts the [[Vietnam War]]. Post-Marxism dates from the late 1960s; several trends and events of that period influenced its development. The weakness of the [[Russia]]n [[Communist]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] paradigm became evident beyond Russia. This happened concurrently with the occurrence internationally of the [[French May|student riots of 1968]], the rise of [[Maoism | Maoist theory]], and the proliferation of commercial [[television]], which covered in its broadcasts the [[Vietnam War]].

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Post-Marxism has two related but different uses. Post-marxism can be used to refer to the situation in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet republics after the fall of the Soviet Union, or it can be used to represent the theoretical work of philosophers and social theorists who have built their theories upon those of Karl Marx and Marxists but exceeded the limits of those theories in ways that puts them outside of Marxism. Particularly, post-Marxism argues against derivationism and essentialism (for example, the state is not an instrument and does not ‘function’ unambiguously or relatively autonomously in the interests of a single class).

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History of post-Marxism

Post-Marxism dates from the late 1960s; several trends and events of that period influenced its development. The weakness of the Russian Communist Soviet paradigm became evident beyond Russia. This happened concurrently with the occurrence internationally of the student riots of 1968, the rise of Maoist theory, and the proliferation of commercial television, which covered in its broadcasts the Vietnam War.

Semiology and discourse

When Roland Barthes began his sustained critique of mass culture via semiology — the science of signs — and the book Mythologies, some Marxist philosophers based their social criticism upon linguistics, semiotics, and discourse. Basing his approach on Barthes' work, Baudrillard wrote For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972), criticizing contemporary Marxism for ignoring the sign value of its philosophic discourse.

Important post-Marxists

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