Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

“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”

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.