dinsdag 27 augustus 2024
maandag 26 augustus 2024
vrijdag 8 december 2023
Marx and the Proletarian Revolution
It wasn’t just Marx who saw how commoners were being exploited by the juggernaut of capital. Both left and right-wing politicians, aristocrats, union delegates and intellectuals helped introduce numerous laws—the British Factory Acts—to alleviate the burden of the worker. It was hard for Marx to disapprove publicly of these laws, but in his heart, he did. Firmly convinced that class struggle was “the great lever of social transformation”, he distanced himself from the fledgling German Social Democrat Party because it was “showing that it does not wish to pursue the path of forcible, bloody revolution”. Remediating injustices through peaceful and legal means, as the party intended, would not lead to a great revolution and was thus not the desirable approach?
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donderdag 7 december 2023
donderdag 27 juli 2023
Marx: A Great Thinker?
This year marked the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’ death. Today, he is still considered by many both within and beyond the academic sphere as one of humanity’s greatest thinkers of all time. Not only did he provide the ideological impetus for Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and many other mass-murdering revolutionaries; he inspired countless social reformers, political figures and philosophers after him. Marx may very well be one of the most impactful intellectuals to have ever walked the earth—an achievement greatly thrust by his utopian promises.
What was it that Marx promised the world? The end of all alienation. What was alienation? The loss of the feeling of belonging to a species. What had caused this alienation? Private property and labour division, Marx argued ....
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woensdag 12 juli 2023
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