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In Defense of Grand NarrativesSchulman, Jason http://jacobinmag.com/spring-2011/in-defense-of-grand-narratives/Publisher: Jacobin, New York, USA Year Published: 2011 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX13316 The postmodernist attack on Marxism conflates the crudities of “Marxism-Leninism” with the thought of Marx himself. Its critique of Enlightenment rationality fails on its own terms, but it also fails to discern Marx’s break with his Enlightenment forebearers. Marx’s goal — the emancipation of the human individual from need and the flowering of “rich individuality” — is not that of rationalism, Hegelianism or classical political economy. Subject Headings |