![]() ![]() If by ‘communism’ she means a non-capitalist economy, where there is collective social ownership of industry, commerce, etc., and there is a planned economy, I think, in fact, it can work. He basically thought that human nature can be fundamentally transformed, and here I find the major problem with the original Marxian project: the Utopian hubris at its core.įor another perspective, we put the same comment to Charles Post, Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. So, Karl Marx created a political religion meant to replace the Kingdom of Necessity through the Kingdom of Liberty. ![]() This is the reason why, for instance, Yuri Slezkine, in his recent book ‘The House of Government’, insists on Bolshevism as a political religion. In his early writings, in his work ‘The Holy Family’, Karl Marx referred to the proletariat as the ‘messiah class of history’. For Karl Marx, this was the mandate of the global proletarian revolution. The idea was not only to defeat capitalism economically, but to defeat capitalism and all the other previous social formulations, from slavery to the bourgeois domination to create a new anthropological species. The communist project was fundamentally an economic, social, intellectual, moral, and civilisational project. What would he say?Įva makes a comment I hear quite frequently from my undergrads and graduate students, and I think we have to take it quite seriously. To get a response, we put Eva’s comment to Vladimir Tismăneanu, Professor of Politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at the University of Maryland (College Park), and a prominent critic of Marxism. So, is communism just a nice idea that’s never been implemented properly? Or is the very notion flawed from the start? We had a comment from Eva, arguing that communism could never work in practice (at least, in a capitalism system). To mark these dates, Debating Europe is launching a series of online discussions dedicated to examining the impact and legacy of Marx and his writings. ![]() May 2018 will mark the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, and February 2018 will be the 170 th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. Given that ‘post-capitalist’ ideas are growing more popular (particularly in Europe in the wake of the Great Recession), we’ve launched a series looking at the legacy of one of the most influential anti-capitalists in history: Karl Marx. What exactly is human nature, and can it be changed? What is human nature? Is it selfish? Or is it social? Maybe a bit of both? This seems to be one of the most fundamental questions when it comes to evaluating the philosophy and political system of Karl Marx. ![]()
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