Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Karl Marx
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The Importance of Humanism in Marxism
The fall of capitalism feels like a sort of inevitability as a result of its own contradictions. We can oppose capitalism on a purely scientific grounds absent and ethical frameworks so that sort of later development isn't so present in this text here. i would argue that really if we look at marx's other work we see him abandon his humanism in a lot of ways. I think there's external reasons that we could be skeptical of a humanist and ethical critique.
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