A Contribution to Critique of ‘Global Crisis Situation’: Critical Dialogue Between Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Iranian Marxist Tradition

In this article, based on mutual appropriation of concepts from cultural-historical activity theory (especially Andy Blunden’s works) and Iranian Marxist tradition (especially Kamal Khosravi’s ideas), I have elaborated two crises which, we believe, are main characteristics of our historical stage and other crises are manifestations of them: (a) crisis of historical perspective on human self-emancipation and (b) crisis of theory in emancipatory social science. Crisis of historical perspective indicates lack of integrated worldview and concept about emancipated future, while crisis of theory addresses the fundamental problem of theoretical categories in expressing relations between elements and factors of reality. Categories of mode of existence (Marx, Khosravi) and mode of collaboration (Blunden) are proposed in order to solve these crises. Based on the mutual appropriation of mode of existence and mode of collaboration, I have tried to formulate three modes of existence of projects (class-project, project, and life-project) which can explain the totality of a social reality. These crises and proposed categories have been elaborated in this article, in critical dialogue with some theoretical frameworks like feminist account of intersectionality and German-Scandinavian Critical Psychology’s main concept: conduct of everyday life.