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The author makes a lot of excuses for Marx's philosophy based upon the times in which he existed, ignoring the fact that The Age of Enlightenment had already oc
by crusso 13y ago
The author makes a lot of excuses for Marx's philosophy based upon the times in which he existed, ignoring the fact that The Age of Enlightenment had already occurred. The Founding Fathers of the USA had already set the USA experiment in motion, based upon the thoughts of Locke and Montesquieu - among others.
There were already abundant answers to the problems that Marx was witnessing, but rather than celebrate the liberty of the individual, Marx subjugated every individual to the limitless needs and exigencies of the "masses".
Great, so a few of Marx's tenets out of context of his larger theme made some sense. His context, though, was completely screwed up.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> There were already abundant answers to the problems that Marx was witnessing No, there weren't then and there aren't now. And, the answers that were later adopted, in the US and the rest of the developed West, to partially mitigate the problems Marx was witnessing were, in large part, a subset of those Marx and Engels recommended in the Communist Manifesto as first steps. (And the Enlightenment preceded the development of the economic system that Marx was criticizing -- and contributed to it -- it didn't solve it.)
- crusso 13y agoSorry, by "answers" I didn't mean final solutions to every problem. I don't assume that there are answers to existence... not in the certainty of death and taxes sense. I meant that there was a direction to go in that was far superior to where they were. In programming terms, a superior local optimum was already evident. To what "first steps" are you referring?