Tradition
Marxist philosophy
Overview
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew from various sources, and the official philosophy in the Soviet Union, which enforced a rigid reading of what Marx called dialectical materialism, in particular during the 1930s. Marxist philosophy is not a strictly defined sub-field of philosophy, because the diverse influence of Marxist theory has extended into fields as varied as aesthetics, ethics, ontology, epistemology, social philosophy, political philosophy, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of history. The key characteristics of Marxism in philosophy are its materialism and its commitment to political practice as the end goal of all thought.
The theory is also about the struggles of the proletariat and their reprimand of the bourgeoisie.
Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, for example, defined the philosophy as "class struggle in theory", thus radically separating himself from those who claimed philosophers could adopt a "God's eye view" as a purely neutral judge.
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I must call attention to the fact, by the way, that the views here set out were, for by far the most part, developed and established by Marx, and only to a very slight degree by myself, so that it is understood that I have not represented them without his knowledge. I read the entire manuscript to him before sending it to press and the tenth chapter of the section on Political Economy was written by Marx and…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
States what Marxist philosophy is; the author is tied to Marxist philosophy in the knowledge graph.
The error arises from certain tendencies which are in themselves legitimate, but which have been carried too far; and Positivism satisfies these tendencies in their due measure. Hitherto the evil has remained unchecked, except by the theologico-metaphysical spirit, which, by giving rise to what is called Spiritualism, has rendered a very valuable service. But useful as it has been, it could not arrest the active…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
States what Marxist philosophy is.
Hegel had freed history from metaphysics--he had made it dialectic; but his conception of history was essentially idealistic. But now idealism was driven from its last refuge, the philosophy of history; now a materialistic treatment of history was propounded, and a method found of explaining man's "knowing" by his "being," instead of, as heretofore, his "being" by his "knowing."
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
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Philosophers who discussed Marxist philosophy
- Antony Flew
- Jürgen Habermas
- Simone Weil
- Intellectual
- György Lukács
- Antonio Gramsci
- Louis Althusser
- Milan Machovec
- Ludovico Geymonat
- Tran Duc Thao
- Kiyoshi Miki
- Jun Tosaka
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Freedom of the press
- Vladimir Lenin
- Philosophy
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Individualism
- Guy Debord
- Jesuits
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Slavoj Žižek
- Karl Marx
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Philosophy of history
- Leon Trotsky
- Marxism
- Mao Zedong
- Holism
- Aesthetics
- Ontology
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Walter Benjamin
- Political philosophy
- Pejorative
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.