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In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels describe the emergence of a new industrial society and the unequal relationships between its different social classes. This inequality, they believed, would breed hostility between two most important classes, the ruling or bourgeois class, which owned the ‘means of production’, and the working ...
Oct 6, 2022 · By embracing its historic role as global competitor, reasoned Engels, an intensified American capitalism would in turn forge a socialist worker’s party. But were economic determinants stronger than politics? Both Engels and Marx assigned the United States a leading role in capitalism’s expansion and, concomitantly, in socialist politics.
- James M. Brophy
- jbrophy@udel.edu
Humans as social beings. Marx and Engels believe humans are social beings whose human nature is determined by social interactions with others. Marx and Engels argue that humans are active beings who are able to lead satisfying lives where the conditions for free creative production exist. The conditions for this only exist in a communist society.
DSA founder Michael Harrington wrote widely on the relationship between democracy and socialism. In this essay, Harrington provides a brief survey of Marx’s and Engels’s approaches to democracy and socialist political strategy, Marx’s theories of capitalism, and the question of Stalinism – or, as Harrington and others often described it, “bureaucratic collectivism.” We republish it…
May 17, 2022 · Looking at the birth of Kapitalismuskritik, we could say that what was decisive for this process—among other elements—was the extraordinary ability of the young Engels to make an empirical analysis of the dynamics of emerging industrial capitalism in England, combining it with philosophical tools and perspectives, starting from a materialist reinterpretation of Hegel’s philosophy of ...
- Marco Solinas
- marco.solinas@santannapisa.it
Democracy. A consideration of Marx and Engels' views on democracy involves a number. of difficulties. The concept itself is notoriously elusive. The pluralist school has. argued that democracy essentially takes an institutional form. It stipulates various procedures which are necessary for the democratic functioning of the state.
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Jan 8, 2021 · Abstract. In the ideological legacy of Friedrich Engels, the critique of ‘state socialism’ has a prominent, if overlooked, place. According to this conception, the essence of socialism is that the existing state intervenes in the capitalist economy and society with reforms to benefit the working class. The first section of this article ...
