Comment on the phylosophical synthesis of karl marx
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:38:48
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 23 pages (6435 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 23 pages (6435 words)
The Philosophical Synthesis of Marx
Not very long ago it was extremely fashionable among official men of
learning to say that Marx had really produced nothing new in the
philosophical sphere. Such a well-known philosopher as Wilhelm Wundt in
his Introduction to Philosophy wrote "This lack of clarity in its
metaphysical premises (i.e. of Marxism. N.B.) has a comprehensible
basis in the fact that practical questions alone interest sociological
materialism. Therefore the system …
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…the system of ideas of the proletariat.
To-day the bourgeoisie is again seizing on the conservative side of the
once mighty system of its greatest philosopher and, purging it of any
really valuable elements, is coming out under the flag of neo-
Hegelianism. But it is not Chronos who devours his own children. This
is only an old myth. The proletariat strikes a mortal blow at
capitalism. Marxism liquidates the outworn mental categories of the
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