[lbo-talk] Missing the Marx

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Dec 31 06:55:49 PST 2004


Todd Archer

You're leaving out naturalism.

"This communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism"

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm#s2

In his 1844 Critique of Hegel's Philosophy, Marx wrote: "... consistent naturalism or humanism is distinct from both idealism and materialism, and constitutes at the same time the unifying truth of both. We see also how only naturalism is capable of comprehending the action of world history."

The key concept here, I suspect, is "fully developed" as in a proper Marxist

critique of how something comes about in society rather than an ethical treatment of how something ought to be.

Todd

^^^^

CB: Truly. Thanks. I have been looking for this reference. Does it get termed "transcendental naturalism" ?



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