Alex Taek-Gwang Lee | Substack
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
I’m a writer moonlighting as a philosophy and cultural studies teacher in South Korea. Basically, I get paid to overthink things and confuse students in two languages.
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The Inner Western Marxism of Soviet Philosophy
After writing my review of Gabriel Rockhill’s book, I received a great deal of correspondence and engaged in some fruitful discussions. These exchanges brought Evald Ilyenkov back to mind, a thinker whom I had studied only briefly before. Returning to him made me realise that the question raised by Rockhill’s critique of Western Marxism …