Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
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Is the "legacy" of Marx & Engels unwarranted?
So something strange I've been thinking lately is that Marx & Engels are still pretty popular figures, even though their ideologues can be interpreted to be failures. They have numerous statues and continue to be cited over and over again, even…
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Did Karl Marx believe there is an innate human nature and does it matter in the light of contemporary biology?
Marx stressed the historical specificity of social practices and institutions. Did he think that human nature was similarly historically specific and aren't his views only of antiquarian interest in view of the findings of modern biology ?
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What is a clear a concise conception of Marx's notion of commodity fetishism?
Wikipedia summarizes commodity fetishism
commodity fetishism perceives the benefit of a commodity to an agent as something that arises from commodities themselves, and not from the interpersonal relations that produce them
It seems to me that Marx…
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Karl Marx's vision "in the end"
I read most of his works ( including Engels' ), and after all the considerations, I concluded he is not a "communist" at all, but rather, a "hyper-capitalist" who had overvalued the "advancement of technologies".
From German Ideology
For as soon…
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Is there any philosopher who "dug" deep enough into the role of book-keeping in certain social condition(s)?
To me, book keeping implies more than many might think, since if and only if everything is settled precisely, which means, no surplus value, nor difference between the movement of the price of the items produced and the cost ( whatever that means )…
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Did Marx have a particular way of thinking of 'power'?
Did Marx have a particular way of thinking of 'power', be that communist power, proletarian power, or bouregois power, in particular before the international revolution? The communist manifesto begins and ends
I. Communism is already acknowledged…
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