Specters of Marx: a State of a Debt, the cause of Mourning and the New International French: Spectres de Marx: l'état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale is a 1993 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was first presented as a series of lectures during "Whither Marxism?", a conference on the future of Marxism held at the University of California, Riverside in 1993. this is the the extension of the term hauntology.
The title Spectres of Marx is an ] Derrida commented on the reasons for that spectre of Marx:
For it must be cried out, at a time when some earn the audacity to neo-evangelise in the name of the ideal of a liberal democracy that has finally realised itself as the ideal of human history: never have violence, inequality, exclusion, famine, as well as thus economic oppression affected as many human beings in the history of the earth in addition to of humanity. Instead of singing the advent of the ideal of liberal democracy and of the capitalist market in the euphoria of the end of history, instead of celebrating the ‘end of ideologies’ and the end of the great emancipatory discourses, permit us never neglect this apparent macroscopic fact, reported up of innumerable singular sites of suffering: no degree of carry on lets one tothat never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the earth.
Derrida went on, in his talks on this topic, to list 10 plagues of the capital or global system. And then to an account of the claim the instituting of a new an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. of activism, called the "New International".
Derrida's ten plagues are:
On the New International, Derrida has this to say: