Castoriadis believes Marx’s dialectics must be destroyed, not inverted

Evidence

An open dialectics must instead be both nonmaterialist and nonidealist (56). With a single stroke, Castoriadis repudiates Marx’s “Hegelian mystification” of capitalist irrationality and his obfuscation of history’s creative imagination: “a revolutionary transcendence of Hegelian dialectics,” he purports irreverently, “demands not that it be put back on its feet, but that, as a first step, its head be chopped off” (1975, 56). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 244

Categorization

• CANDY: The quip about chopping off Hegel’s head rather than putting him back on his feet is a fun, quotable one-liner about Marx’s inversion.
• XREF: connects to: Post-Marxism is built on abandoning the dialectic as a mystification — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 742; One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 984; Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857

Broader Connections

• Post-Marxism is built on abandoning the dialectic as a mystification #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 742
• One can criticize Marxist orthodoxy without abandoning Marxist tools #qualifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 984
• Marx’s core socialism can stand without his Hegelian dialectic #expands (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2857