CRITICAL MARXISM AND EASTERN EUROPE.

The article focuses on issues related to critical Marxism and Eastern Europe. As an effect of the post-war strategic-military games, the East European countries, dominated by Stalinist parties, were compelled to embark on the same political and economic platform as the Soviet Union, were submitted to all the practices involved and in the Stalinist socio-political paradigm. The ersatz Marxism of the epoch was subsequently the ideological framework created by Stalin and by his followers and was, in fact, a compendium of trivial metaphysical ideas interwoven with pragmatic rules and mythological fixations. The Stalinist ideology fulfilled the process of increasing pauperization of Marxist theoretical practice and actually functioned as an effective counter-doctrine meant to emasculate the originally emancipatory momentum of negative dialectics and to substitute for it an opportunist-positivistic sociology deliberately situated beyond the traditional moral borders. More than a decade after Stalin's death, the favourite theme in the discourses of East European philosophers was the return to Marx.