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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.—Karl Marx s we approach the end of the nineteenth century in our quest for a deeper understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of leadership, we find democracy continuing to flourish.
Sep 25, 2022 · Ongoing debates over the relationship between leadership and administration, especially in the field of education, raise a new question of alienation and bureaucratization first introduced at the dawn of capitalism by the pioneer sociologists Karl Marx and Max Weber.
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Marxist sociological analysis has understandable attention to the fact that socialism succeeded in agrarian or, even better, in agrarian-industrial underdeveloped countries, and also in the postwar, economically depressed situations.
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Equally significant, the many extant conceptions of leadership rest on different conceptions of human nature. Specifically, in the history of political theory, only Rousseau and Marx had positive views of human nature; the others - from Plato to Freud and after - uniformly presented negative views.
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Marx was writing when mid-Victorian capitalism was at its Dickensian worst, analysing how the new industrialism was causing radical social upheaval and severe urban poverty. Of his many writings, perhaps the most well known and influential are the rather large Capital Volume 1 (1867) and the very small Communist Manifesto (1848), penned with his co...
To do philosophy properly, Marx thought, we have to form theories that capture the concrete details of real people’s lives – to make theory fully grounded in practice. His primary interest wasn’t simply capitalism. It was human existence and our potential. His enduring philosophical contribution is an insightful, historically grounded perspective o...
Marx argued social change is driven by the tension created within an existing social order through technological and organisational innovations in production. Technology-driven changes in production make new social forms possible, such that old social forms and classes become outmoded and displaced by new ones. Once, the dominant class were the lan...
The conditions under which people live deeply shape the way they see and understand the world. As Marx put it: Marx viewed human history as process of people progressively overcoming impediments to self-understanding and freedom. These impediments can be mental, material and institutional. He believed philosophy could offer ways we might realise ou...
By seeing the economic system and what it produces as objective and independent of humanity, this system comes to dominate us. When systematic exploitation is viewed as a product of the “natural order”, humans are, from a philosophical perspective, “enslaved” by their own creation. What we have produced comes to be viewed as alien to us. Marx calle...
Marx’s concept of ideology introduced an innovative way to critique how dominant beliefs and practices – commonly taken to be for the good of all – actually reflect the interests and reinforce the power of the “ruling” class. For Marx, beliefs in philosophy, culture and economics often function to rationalise unfair advantages and privileges as “na...
Jan 1, 2018 · Unlike the traditional functionalist, organicist conceptions of organizations, Marxist theory focuses primarily on the conflictual aspects of employment relation and the ramifications for the structure and function of organizations (Adler 2011). This distinctive feature of Marxist approach compared to other conflict theories is attributing the ...
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Jan 30, 2019 · Our argument is that we need to apply Marxist theory to consider the Fourth Industrial Revolution and search for new conceptual insight into the intelligent and self-sufficient machinery we are promised, asking whether this represents more velocity in the self-destruction of the (capitalist) system.
