Exorcising political spectres with the aid of Marx, Sartre, and Derrida

Prejudices and preconceptions caused by the force of ideology can enchain our judgment and distort our historical-political comprehension becoming ghosts. It’s difficult to distinguish between actual dangers and groundlessness illusions. Starting from the inspiration provided by the Derrida's Specters of Marx, McBride uses the reflections of three great philosophers "exorcists" (Marx, Sartre and Derrida), useful to purify our consciences, spacing them with historical snapshots that are able to give shape to the problem. Marx’s philosophy while moving against idealogical specters becomes, in turn, an ideological spectrum. New ghosts are created, they are protagonists of a mechanism that replicates and amplifies the terror and degenerates even more translating it in suspicion of the other. At closing, the author underlines the need for the United States, marked by fear of terrorism post-September11th, to reformulate their role in international political scene to resize it. Only in this way they will face the real dangers of postmodernity.