POST-MARXISM AND THE NEW SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS

The paper offers a critique of several theoretical trends in neo-and p ost-Marxism and of new social movement theory, contending that many of the central tenets of political economy have been too quickly abandon ed in analysing the new social movements and that, at the same time, t hese movements have too often been used to shore up other problematic areas of Marxian analysis. Some of these problems arise from generaliz ations made from very partial views of only certain movements. Theoret ical work needs to include the political economy of these movements an d at the same time learn from the analyses generated by these movement s themselves.