TY - JOUR A1 - Anderson, Kevin T1 - The East European Upheavals, German Unification and the Future of Marxism: The Continuing Relevance of the Concepts of State Capitalism and Marxist Humanism JF - Humanity and Society, Vol. 16 (No. 2, May 1992), pp. 138-158. N2 - Marxist humanism and state capitalism continue to be relevant leftist movements despite political shifts in central and Eastern Europe. Popular disillusionment with democratic reforms and an implied movement away from capitalism are exemplified in the formerly communist countries of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Russia, and the former East Germany. A critical assessment of statist communism reveals structural contradictions in its agenda to break with Stalinist and social democratic orthodoxy, which are both rooted in human emancipation through modernization and objective changes in the productive forces. A truly liberated society is the objective of a radically emancipatory strand of Marxist state capitalist theory and Marxist humanist philosophy, focusing on subjectivity in historical development, Hegelian dialects, and Marxist praxis. Such a theory draws from the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya, Frederick Pollock, Tony Cliff, Erich FROMM, and Karel Kosik. 76 References. J. Sadler. Y1 - 1992 ER -