Marxism Freedom

Author : Andrzej Walicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804731645

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Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom by Andrzej Walicki Pdf

The aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its development in the history of Marxist thought, including Marxism-Leninism, and to explain how it as possible for it to be transformed at the height of its influence into a legitimization of totalitarian practices. The relevance of the Marxist conception of freedom for an understanding of communist totalitarianism derives from the historical fact that the latter came into being as a the result of a conscious, strenuous striving to realize the former. The Russian Revolution suppressed "bourgeois freedom" to pave the way for the "true freedom" of communism. Totalitarianism was a by-product of this immense effort. The last section of the book gives a concise analysis of the dismantling of Stalinism, involving not only the gradual detotalitarization but also the partial decommunization of "really existing socialism." Throughout, Marxism is treated as an ideology that has compromised itself but that nevertheless deserves to be seen as the most important, however exaggerated and, ultimately, tragically mistaken, reaction to the multiple shortcomings of capitalist societies and the liberal tradition.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781493082766

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Marxism and Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through conflict of the means for realizing complete human freedom. But freedom for Marx meant freedom not only from capitalist economic exploitation but also from all political restraints. Continuing her historical analysis, Dunayevskaya reveals how completely Marx's original conception of freedom was perverted through its adaptations by Stalin in Russia and Mao in China, and the subsequent erection of totalitarian states. The exploitation of the masses persisted under these regimes in the form of a new "state capitalism." Yet despite the profound derailment of Marxist political philosophy in the twentieth century, Dunayevskaya points to developments such as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and the Civil Rights struggles in the United States as signs that the indomitable quest for freedom on the part of the downtrodden cannot be forever repressed. The Hegelian dialectic of events propelled by the spirit of the masses thus moves on inexorably with the hope for the future achievement of political, economic, and social freedom and equality for all.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015069764192

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Marxism and Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

Author : George G Brenkert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135025786

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Marx's Ethics of Freedom by George G Brenkert Pdf

This book reveals Marx’s moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx’s thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx’s ethics showing how Marx’s criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own. In the light of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy the insights and defects of Marx’s major ethical themes are discussed.

Author : Levy del Aguila Marchena
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030828943

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Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx by Levy del Aguila Marchena Pdf

This book investigates communism in Marx’s writings, incorporating a consideration of communist politicity. The author outlines the arguments by which it is possible to sustain—from Marx—the idea that human emancipation against capital also means the elimination of the State, the public, and the political dimension of praxis. He also posits that the concrete tasks of the “management of the common” in a communist society require political mediations that allow us to confront the difference inherent to the personality of freely associated producers, as well as the ontological finitude from which no technical power can evade. Finally, assuming Marx as a starting point whose work remains an inescapable source for “thinking communism,” the book proposes a research agenda from Marx and beyond to continue in this imperative task. ​Levy del Aguila Marchena is Senior Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has published extensively on Marx, political philosophy, and applied ethics.

Author : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Liberty
ISBN : UOM:39015002317603

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Marxism, Freedom and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Pdf

Author : Jan Kandiyali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315398044

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Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy by Jan Kandiyali Pdf

Interest in the study of Marx’s thought has shown a revival in recent years, with a number of newly established academic societies, conferences, and journals dedicated to discussing his thought. This book brings together distinguished and up-and-coming scholars to provide a major re-evaluation of historical issues in Marx scholarship and to connect Marx’s ideas with fresh debates in contemporary Anglo-American social and political philosophy. Among the topics discussed are Marx’s relationship to his philosophical predecessors—including Hegel, the young Hegelians, and the utopian socialists—his concept of recognition, his critique of liberalism, and his views on the good life. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in Marx, Hegel, the history of political thought, and social and political philosophy.

Author : Radoslav Selucky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349044030

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Marxism, Socialism, Freedom by Radoslav Selucky Pdf

Author : Ernesto Screpanti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230596474

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Libertarian Communism by Ernesto Screpanti Pdf

Central to this book is a discussion of the notion of freedom in Marx and Engel's work. The book argues that the libertarian foundations of political economy were present in Marx's and Engel's work and utilizes contemporary theories of freedom to reinterpret and analyse their original work.

Author : William Clare Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691180816

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Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts Pdf

Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers’ movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante’s Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers’ emancipation to the secret depths of the modern “social Hell.” In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism. Combining research on Marx’s interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx’s theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today’s world.

Author : Raya Dunayevskaya
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050049025

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Marxism & Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya Pdf

In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human struggle for freedom, which entails the gradual emergence of a proletarian revolutionary consciousness and the discovery through conflict of the means for realizing complete human freedom. But freedom for Marx meant freedom not only from capitalist economic exploitation but also from all political restraints. Continuing her historical analysis, Dunayevskaya reveals how completely Marx's original conception of freedom was perverted through its adaptations by Stalin in Russia and Mao in China, and the subsequent erection of totalitarian states. The exploitation of the masses persisted under these regimes in the form of a new "state capitalism." Yet despite the profound derailment of Marxist political philosophy in the twentieth century, Dunayevskaya points to developments such as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and the Civil Rights struggles in the United States as signs that the indomitable quest for freedom on the part of the downtrodden cannot be forever repressed. The Hegelian dialectic of events propelled by the spirit of the masses thus moves on inexorably with the hope for the future achievement of political, economic, and social freedom and equality for all.

Author : J.J. O'Rourke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401021203

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The Problem of Freedom in Marxist Thought by J.J. O'Rourke Pdf

This study seeks to present the theory of freedom as found in one line of the Marxist tradition, that which begins with Marx and Engels and continues through Lenin to contemporary Soviet philosophy. Although the primary goal is simply to describe how freedom is con ceived by the thinkers of this tradition, an attempt is also made to ascertain whether or not their views are strongly deterministic, as has often been presumed by Western commentators. is in order regarding the scope of the term 'contemporary A remark Soviet philosophy'. The Soviet stage in Marxist philosophy stretche. s back to the 1917 revolution. However, for the purposes of this study only works published after 1947 were examined, and the vast majority of them date from the 1960's. Apart from the fact that most works of previous periods were not available, bibliographical indications, such as the titles of the articles in Pod znamenem marksizma, did not suggest that the theory of freedom was then a major concern. In fact, even 1947 there was little development of this theme until the upsurge after of works in philosophical anthropology during the last decade. On the other hand, it is not being suggested that the conception of freedom found in recent writings is representative of earlier Soviet philosophy, during the Stalinist 'dead' period or earlier. Only further research could establish that. This work was presented as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, under the direction of Professor J. M.

Author : George G Brenkert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135025779

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Marx's Ethics of Freedom by George G Brenkert Pdf

This book reveals Marx’s moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx’s thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx’s ethics showing how Marx’s criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own. In the light of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy the insights and defects of Marx’s major ethical themes are discussed.

Author : G. A. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107393431

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Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality by G. A. Cohen Pdf

In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:940134638

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Marxism, Freedom and the State by Anonim Pdf