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In this way material (in a physical sense) and mental elements are combined in what Marxists call the material basis of society. The Marxian conception of history puts living man in the center of its scheme of development, with all his needs and all his powers, both physical and mental.
An inquiry into why Marx was not an egalitarian leads us to examine Marx’s radical critique of politics and ideology, right and morality, and class society itself.
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“Marxism is a theory of liberation or it is nothing” Dunayevskaya held in Marxism and Freedom. Concerned with the freedom of humanity and the destruction of human life under capitalism, one aim of Marxism and Freedomwas to, Prefiguring what is now called intersectionality, she highlighted “new passions and new forces” that emerged in freedom strugg...
All this was exciting to me as a 21-year-old who had already become cynical about programmatic socialist groups that often viewed movements as fodder to be mobilised. I probably didn’t understand it fully at the time, but I remember meeting Dunayevskaya in 1985 just after the year-long British miners strike had suffered an historic defeat. When we ...
Marxism and Freedomremains alive to me in 2019. It’s not only because we live in an age of myriad crises that threaten humanity, but the book reminds humanity to keep our ears and minds open to new and often unthinkable revolts. In this moment of violent suppression, new forms of struggle continuously emerge and reach for a future. It is here that ...
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The principles of historical materialism involve Marx in making two crucial claims about freedom. The first is that the revolutionary proletariat is, in an important sense, more free than its class antagonist the bourgeoisie.
- G. W. Smith
- 1982
Briefly then, for Thomas Aquinas freedom can be defined as knowledge of one's end; and this is not much different from Marx's idea except that each has asserted a different end. Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the appreciation of necessity. 'Necessity is "blind" only "in so far
Jul 4, 2022 · Marx viewed human history as process of people progressively overcoming impediments to self-understanding and freedom. These impediments can be mental, material and institutional.
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Failing a comprehensive and formal treatise on politics and the state, Marx's own discussion consists of a number of scattered and not altogether consistent general observations and some detailed investigation of the role and character of the state in particular historical situations.
