汤普森与英国马克思主义的文化转向

文化问题是第二次世界大战结束后推动英国马克思主义发展的理论主轴,文化马克思主义也因此而兴起,在此过程中,汤普森发挥了核心作用。20世纪60-70年代,这种文化马克思主义遭遇重大挑战,英国第二代新左派由于深受阿尔都塞结构主义的马克思主义的影响而集体背叛。在此背景下,汤普森发表了著名的《理论的贫困或太阳系仪的错误》一文,通过对结构主义的马克思主义进行全方位批评,揭示出第二代新左派试图通过移植外来马克思主义理论传统来发展英国马克思主义的企图是虚幻的,应当立足于英国本土的激进思想传统去建设英国的马克思主义理论,从而为英国马克思主义的文化转向进行了高调的辩护和捍卫。

Edward Thompson and the Cultural Turn of British Marxism

Cultural issues provide main impetus to the development of British Marxism after the Second World War,thus the emergence of Cultural Marxism.The role that E.P.Thompson played in the development can never be denied.In 1960s and 1970s,the Cultural Marxism was confronted with a severe challenge:under the influence of Althusser's Structuralist Marxism,the British Second New Left abandoned the Cultural Marxism completely.It was under such circumstances that Thompson published his famous The Poverty of Theory or ...