Abstract:

Over a century of theoretical evolution, French Marxists introduced dialectics, through Hegelianism, into the political conception of socialism. At the same time, through the translation and discussion of Karl Marx's early philosophical works, it triggered a humanist and existential vision of Marxist political views. In the ongoing controversy full of political factors, contemporary French Marxists have reflected on the positive and negative experiences of socialist revolutionary practice in the past century. They have also inherited the unfinished practice of political emancipation from the 20th century while criticizing the contemporary symptoms of capitalist ideology. The historical burdens of theory and practice pushed contemporary French Marxists to divide principle from strategy This took the form of trying to completely abandon political ethics to reconstruct the relationship between “meta-politics” and historical materialism while trying to suspend the critique of modern capitalist democracy in governance and order.

Key words: french marxism, political philosophy, historical sciences, governance discourse