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![]() Marx's Concept of Man
Fromm, Erich
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/fromm/works/1961/man/index.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/index.htm Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York Year Published: 1961 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX6422 It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to the sources; there is no more drastic example of this phenomenon than what has happened to the theory of Karl Marx in the last few decades....I shall try to demonstrate that this interpretation of Marx is completely false; that his theory does not assume that the main motive of man is one of material gain; that, furthermore, the very aim of Marx is to liberate man from the pressure of economic needs, so that he can be fully human; that Marx is primarily concerned with the emancipation of man as an individual, the overcoming of alienation, the restoration of his capacity to relate himself fully to man and to nature; that Marx's philosophy constitutes a spiritual existentialism in secular language and because of this spiritual quality is opposed to the materialistic practice and thinly disguised materialistic philosophy of our age. Abstract: - Table of Contents 1. The Falsification of Marx's Concepts 2. Marx's Historical Materialism 3. The Problem of Consciousness, Social Structure and the Use of Force 4. The Nature of Man 5. Alienation 6. Marx's Concept of Socialism 7. The Continuity in Marx's Thought 8. Marx the Man ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS, Karl Marx Translated by T.B. Bottomore Translator's Note Preface First Manuscript: Alienated Labor Second Manuscript: The Relationship of Private Property Third Manuscript: Private Property and Labor Private Property and Communism Needs, production and Division of Labor Money Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy From German Ideology, Karl Marx Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's philosophy of Law. Critique of Religion, Karl Marx Reminiscences of Marx, Paul Lafargue Jenny Marx, Eleanor Marx-Aveling Confession, Karl Marx Karl Marx's Funeral, Frederick Engels Afterword, Erich Fromm Subject Headings |