A critical evaluation of the Socialist Journal "Aydınlık" within a Marxian Theoretical Framework

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Gündoğan, Ercan
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The thesis concerns with the conception of class and revolution in Marxian meta-theory and examines its reception by the Turkish Marxist left through an analysis of the Socialist Journal Aydınlık (1968-1971). Survey demonstrates that the reception is obscured by strategic debates, and is also not perfectly realized due to the needs of the rapid development of the Turkish socialist left after 1960s. Marxian theory is used mainly to justify the national democratic revolutionary strategy which is presented as only valid strategy, against socialist revolutionary strategy. National Democratic Revolutionary strategy is suggested to close the gap between Marxian framework which exclusively focuses on the proletarian socialist politics and the undeveloped revolutionary conditions of the underdeveloped societies. However, this gap is closed only at the expense of creating new gaps between Marx and the country. Class phenomena are analyzed in the framework of the imperialism-feudalism-comprador bourgeoisie alliance and popular or national classes. This strategy suggests that only after national democratic revolution is perfectly completed, socialist revolutionary struggle can be valid. It thereby postpones the possibility of socialist struggle and hence Marx to an undetermined future.
Socialism., Communism.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606311/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15293
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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E. Gündoğan, “A critical evaluation of the Socialist Journal “Aydınlık” within a Marxian Theoretical Framework,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2005.
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