Frieder Otto Wolff- Finite Marxism (2024) [Marx: Key Concepts edited by Bellofiore and Redolfi Riva}

Frieder Otto Wolf, President of the Humanist Association of Germany and Professor of Philosophy at Free University of Berlin, 2013.
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abstract
In order to advance double goal of improving marxist contributions to critical science and marxist contributions to emancipatory politics, I shall refer back to Althusser‘s little known essay ‘Marxism as a finite theory’, especially linking his problematics of a finite theory to the Marxian topic of the ‘limits of dialectical presentation’. On this basis I shall propose the notions of a finite project and a finite initiative as a starting point for rethinking ‘marxist politics’, and for establishing the ground-work for a Marxian philosophy which is capable of articulating an idea of ‘finite plurality’ as an attractive alternative to the notion of a ‘monist infinity‘, as well as to that of an ‘anything-goes infinity’.
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