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I would like to understand non-marxist political science better in order to better engage with it. Any reading suggestions? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I often find non-marxist political science frustrating in ways I can't describe. It always seems focuses on the wrong things yet I don't have the foundation to even begin to critique it.

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[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Foucault and Baudrillard are decent intros if you're trying to understand 1950s-2010s post-modernism and the deviation of marxism that it took.

Further reading I would suggest Georges Battielle, Steven Lukes (He's closer to being a marxist but focuses more on structuralism and power dynamics) and Judith Butler.

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Foucault and Baudrillard

To add to this, Gabriel Rockhill, a marxist, does a great critique of this school of western thinking and he even came from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NNh2EIOa4