Marx on Emancipation and Socialist Goals

This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters - especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future. This philosophical study stands out because of its two principal features. First, it reviews and develops ideas about the future, though often only briefly discussed by Marx and his commentators, drawn from Marx's work. Second, it focuses on collective matters that are critical for Marx's ideas but rarely investigated and still problematic.Part One introduces Marx with a discussion of emancipation and freedom in community. It then discusses the importance of retrieval and the methodology for promoting it. Part Two is about misunderstandings of Marx's ideas about productive development, division of labour, and organisations. Part Three discusses nations, morality, and democracy, all of which Marx supported. Part Four takes up Marx's significant, butmisunderstood, ideas about the future and his relation to the anarchists.

Auteur

Robert X. Ware is a Canadian philosopher, retired from The University of Calgary, Canada, and residing in Ottawa. He did post-doctoral work in linguistics at MIT and has visited universities and institutes in Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, Italy, India, and China (1980s), where he has taught and lectured on many subjects including Marxism.

Contenu

I. Goals and Methodology

1. Emancipation and Retrievals
2. Methodological Beginnings
3. Coquetting with Dialectics
   II. Social Relations and Organisations
4. Fettered Forces and New Found Freedom
5. Marx on the Division of Labour
6. Marx on Class Consciousness and Organisation
   III. Nations, Morality, and Democracy
7. Nationalism and Internationalism
8. Marx's Morality for All
9. Emancipatory Democracy
   IV. Reflecting on Transitions and Futures
10. Marx on State and Society in the Future
11. Marx on Some Phases of Communism
12. Two Projects of Socialism