Write a note on the marxist critique of liberal citizenship 250 words
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By the 17th century new ideas were entering Western discourse in the fields of science and philosophy that massively impacted upon our understanding of human nature and the social formation, pushing religion to the margins it espoused secular and rational arguments. Out of this was born liberalism and individualism.
Eric Hobsbawn said of this “ The great revolution of 1789 to 1848 was the triumph not of industry as such, but of capitalist industry, not of liberty and equality in general but of bourgeois liberal society”
Marx wrote “Zur Judenfrage” in 1843 in this essay his aim was to defend the right of Jews to full political emancipation, equal to all Germans. The essay was written as a response to Bruno Bauer, a young Hegelian, who was much influenced by Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Marx sets out to make a distinction between political emancipation and real human emancipation. Unfortunately he doesn’t set out in any detail what he means by real human emancipation but Marx’s theory of species being, has an important place in understanding his conception of history, his critique of capitalism and liberal democracy , his theory of alienation and his commitment to communism. Marx believed that history involves a continuous transformation of human nature, that nature is not immutable but subject to social conditioning, and for Marx the social world, is the world in which man produces the necessities of life.
Liberal rights and justice are premised on the idea that each of us needs protection from others, these legal rights are rights of separation, freedom from interference and freedom to acquire property. Marx says “thus the right of man to property is the right to enjoy his possessions and dispose of the same arbitrarily, without regard for other men, independently from society, the right to selfishness” this Marx tells us “leads man to see other men not as the realization, but the limitation of his own freedom” Insisting on a regime of rights constituted by law encourages us to perceive other humans as a threat to our free will and our integrity that man in his natural state is as Hobbes supposed at war with all. I think it would be wrong to ascribe the concept of species being entirely to Marx. Engles drew upon the work of the anthropologist Henry Morgan in his book “The origins of the family, private property and the state” Morgan was a contemporary of Marx and Engles, and he very much influenced their ideas about the relationship between human nature, the social formation and the evolution of the productive forces in society.
Eric Hobsbawn said of this “ The great revolution of 1789 to 1848 was the triumph not of industry as such, but of capitalist industry, not of liberty and equality in general but of bourgeois liberal society”
Marx wrote “Zur Judenfrage” in 1843 in this essay his aim was to defend the right of Jews to full political emancipation, equal to all Germans. The essay was written as a response to Bruno Bauer, a young Hegelian, who was much influenced by Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Marx sets out to make a distinction between political emancipation and real human emancipation. Unfortunately he doesn’t set out in any detail what he means by real human emancipation but Marx’s theory of species being, has an important place in understanding his conception of history, his critique of capitalism and liberal democracy , his theory of alienation and his commitment to communism. Marx believed that history involves a continuous transformation of human nature, that nature is not immutable but subject to social conditioning, and for Marx the social world, is the world in which man produces the necessities of life.
Liberal rights and justice are premised on the idea that each of us needs protection from others, these legal rights are rights of separation, freedom from interference and freedom to acquire property. Marx says “thus the right of man to property is the right to enjoy his possessions and dispose of the same arbitrarily, without regard for other men, independently from society, the right to selfishness” this Marx tells us “leads man to see other men not as the realization, but the limitation of his own freedom” Insisting on a regime of rights constituted by law encourages us to perceive other humans as a threat to our free will and our integrity that man in his natural state is as Hobbes supposed at war with all. I think it would be wrong to ascribe the concept of species being entirely to Marx. Engles drew upon the work of the anthropologist Henry Morgan in his book “The origins of the family, private property and the state” Morgan was a contemporary of Marx and Engles, and he very much influenced their ideas about the relationship between human nature, the social formation and the evolution of the productive forces in society.
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