Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
the intellectual world war, marxism vs. the imperial theory industry
$45.72
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2025
Summary
Unmasking Western Marxism: A Critical Examination of the Frankfurt School
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? delivers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of imperialist propaganda and the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Gabriel Rockhill showcases the strength of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, highlighting how the realm of ideas is a vital arena for class conflict.
The book meticulously re-examines the Frankfurt School—a corners…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781685901349 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1685901344 |
| Author: | Gabriel Rockhill |
| Publisher: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 684g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 237mm x 154mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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In his remarkable work, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, Gabriel Rockhill has taken Georg Lukács’s famous criticism of the Western Marxist tradition for its “residence in the Grand Hotel Abyss” a step further, demonstrating that admission to the “beautiful hotel…on the edge of the abyss, of nothing, of absurdity” almost invariably came at a price.
Although Rockwill’s book is written in the spirit of critique, the intention is not the absolute rejection of Western Marxism, but the development of an indispensable self-critique within contemporary historical materialism aimed at the reconstruction of the philosophy of praxis for the twenty-first century.
”–John Bellamy Foster, editor, Monthly Review; author, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx”“The Intellectual World War meticulously deconstructs the age-old myth that Western Marxism represents a radical departure from capitalism and imperialism. Instead, we are compelled to reckon with the painful reality that opportunistic Marxist academics are servants of Western imperialism posing no threat to the bourgeois order, but are cyphers of repression and conformity operating in the guise of scholarly respectability. Gabriel Rockhill’s careful and detailed account compels us all to revisit more than fifty years of twisted Marxist prattle purveying unscientific stupor upon generations of sincere students who reproduce and sustain imperialism and capitalist exploitation under the pretense of Marxism.”–Immanuel Ness, author of “Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries”“The most important material history of ideas since The German Ideology.”–Aymeric Monville, author of “Neocapitalism according to Michel Clouscard”About The Author
Gabriel Rockhill
Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher and cultural critic who has published twelve books including, most recently, Requiem pour la French Theory with Aymeric Monville (forthcoming in English from Monthly Review Press) and Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism, which he edited for Monthly Review Press. He is the founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University.
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