Међуратна марксистичка критика студије Слободана Јовановића о Марксу и историји марксизма : морални идеали и грађански објективизам

Abstract

This paper deals with interwar critique of Slobodan Jovanović’s (1869–1958) study on Marx, Marxists and anti-Marxists („Marx”, 1935) put forth by leading Yugoslav Marxist theoreticians and functionaries of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Č. Kruševac, V. Masleša, O. Keršovani, O. Prica). Critics paid special attention to the concepts of praxis, dialectic, objective and subjective, as well as to the issue of ethics in Marxism. The paper discusses the question of ethics in Marxism and the concept of class „bourgeois objectivism” (interpretation determined by class embership). Unlike his critics, what Jovanović understands by Marxism is not dialectical materialism. Jovanović suggests that essential to understanding Marx’s teaching is its philosophical contents because Marx’s findings in other areas were based on his philosophical insights. Marxist interwar critiques of Jovanović’s „Marx” substantially influenced philosophical reception of Jovanović’s work in the post-war communist era. Slobodan Jovanović’s „Marx” has been interpreted and evaluated in every history of Serbian philosophy written after the Second World War.