This is serious intellectual history. Very rare nowadays.

Professor Jones does not mention the enormous influence on Marx of the English philosopher and novelist William Godwin, who was the first thinker to argue that societird lsws and institutions were intended to protect the interests of the ruling class, not to protect the interests of what the English called the "common people"-- meaningthe working class and the peasantry, Godwin contended the laws of England and all other nations were designed to keep common people in subjection, not to protect or benefit tham. During Marx's long stays in the British Museums reading room. I believe it to be very probable that he read Godwin's treatise on political economy. Certainly his writings on the subject of class struggle reflects Godwin's ideas.

The material conception of history is not deterministic, both Engels and the people working on the MEGA2 actively combated that popular misconception. So did Marxists from Bernstein to Trotsky. The idea of making a determinism out of it comes from Karl Kautsky, the most important Marxist thinker of the generation between Engels and Lenin.

Wow; how many people can even listen or understand this brilliance of study and expression of explanation..Why i am a Marxist..

@dexterdextrow7248

2 жыл бұрын

You're a Marxist because you find this hard to understand? Aren't you a clever one. Also, "expression of explanation"? Really?

Notably dull lecture.

I didn't think i could dislike Marx any more than I did but hearing him reject science because it didn't fit his political views has done just that

@raymondhartmeijer9300

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think he rejected science, he agreed that Darwin was right about evolution. He simply makes a distinction between nature and history. For Marx, history is the development of humans based on our choices, so therefore any political or economical order is not natural, but social.

@randomstuff911

Ай бұрын

He did not reject science at all lol what are you talking about