#Marxism#ClassStruggle#History#PhIlosophy#Capitalism: "For Bensaïd, “indignation is a beginning. A way to stand up and start moving. First comes indignation, then rebellion, then we shall see.” Among all of Bensaïd’s “heretical” contributions to the renewal of Marxism and revolutionary theory, the most important, in my eyes, is his radical break with the positivist, determinist, and fatalist ideology of inevitable Progress that so heavily weighed on “orthodox” Marxism, particularly in France.
His rereading of Marx, with the help of Auguste Blanqui and Walter Benjamin, led him to understand history as a series of crossroads and bifurcations; a field of possibilities whose issue is unpredictable. Class struggle is central in the historical process, but its result is uncertain."
