Marxist critiques of Slobodan Jovanovic’s study on Marx and Marxism praxis and dialectic
Slobodan Jovanovic’s study on Marx (1935) has been interpreted and evaluated 
 in every history of Serbian philosophy written after the Second World War 
 (1968, 1972, 2002, 2009). This paper discusses Marxist responses to this 
 study and the influence its evaluations had on the post-war reception and 
 critique of Jovanovic’s writings. The treatise on Marx, which came as a 
 result of years of studying and keeping close track of the evolution of 
 Marxism, Socialist thought and the labour movement, may also be seen as a 
 Problem oriented history of Marxism. Jovanovic suggests that essential to 
 understanding Marx’s teaching is its philosophical contents because Marx’s 
 findings in other areas were based on his philosophical insights. The paper 
 also tackles the issue of interwar and post-war interpretations of the 
 concept of praxis. Unlike his critics, what Jovanovic understands by Marxism 
 is not dialectical materialism. The paper shows that Marxist critiques of 
 Jovanovic’s study substantially influenced the philosophical reception of 
 that work in the post-war period. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike 
 Srbije, br. 177011]