Marksizmas tarp dogmos ir spekuliacijos

ENThe paper deals with Marxism as a philosophy of history. In doing so, it touches upon some controversial points regarding Marxist legacy in the social sciences and humanities. The author suggests that Marxism, in spite of its well-known ups and downs in Eastern and Central Europe, still might be viewed as a certain framework for the philosophy of history, social philosophy in general, and social and cultural criticism in particular. The strength of Marxism, both as a philosophy of history and as a social philosophy, lies in what may be termed a passionate historical narrative. At the same time, it is argued in the paper that it would be vital for Lithuanian humanists and social scientists to employ an overall conceptual analysis of the specifically Marxist modes of theoretical and critical discourse, including their dangerous implications for politics and culture, instead of flatly and naively denying the immense influence Marxist social philosophy made on modern critiques of society and culture. In order not to reduce Marxism to its travesty in Soviet MarxismLeninism, it is of great importance to embrace what might be referred to as the national variants of Marxism. However, the author concludes, such an overall critical analysis still remains to be archived.