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Albert Camus – The Rebel – Part 3

Revolution and Ideology

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Marx's Revolutionary Prophecy Is Also Revolutionary in Princip Principle

Kamueca: Marx's prophecy is revolutionary because he completes the movement of negation begun by the philosophy of illumination. The jacobins destroyed the transcendence of a personal god, but replaced it by the transcendences of principles. Marks institutes contemporary atheism by also destroying the transcendenceof principles. That is why markh brought to the point of putting the emphasis on the economic and social determination. His most profitable undertaking has been to reveal the reality that is hidden behind the formal values of which the bourgeois of his time made a great show. But he says his true achievement was in revealing that social values merely reflected the economic values of the ruling class.

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