ABSTRACT
The period succeeding the collapse of State-Communism in Europe has been lavishly mediatized by many interested parties as the ultimate dawn of 'Post-Marxism'. In the wake of the claims to 'Post-Marxism' this connection creates a specific spectacle of struggle in the politics of discourse. This parody is in itself a form of mediation 'in and through which it becomes possible to go beyond the immediate existence of objects as they are given'. Both Theodor W. Adorno and Georg Lukacs regal aesthetics with the strong role of an historical referent. They keep in line with Classical German Philosophy, albeit critically. The Revolution in the revolutions of 1989 has not 'destroyed' Marxism so much as it has dismantled post-war state-Socialism. The insufficiency of post-historicist answers demand questions. Questioning the answer is a first step, which Derrida takes on his entry in the Marxist problematic.
