Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
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Is the "legacy" of Marx & Engels unwarranted?
So something strange I've been thinking lately is that Marx & Engels are still pretty popular figures, even though their ideologues can be interpreted to be failures. They have numerous statues and continue to be cited over and over again, even…
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What did Nietzsche and Marx think of each other?
Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Marx (1818-1883) weren't quite contemporaries, but both were prominent and influential German thinkers, and one might expect that they have at least heard of each other. Marx might have missed Nietzsche's most active period…
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Who is the Big Other, and is there a little Other?
Zizek often draws on Lacan term the Big Other; what is this and what does it mean?
One supposes that there may also then be a little other - is this right?
What would be sensible examples of either kind?
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Is Marx's model of capitalist society no longer valid?
Given the evolution of the capitalistic society, to what degree is Marx's model of capitalist society no longer valid nowadays ?
Are there any authors which discuss the contemporary validity of Marx's work ?
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What are some responses to Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies"?
Can you recommend a good reference to answer the critiques in Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies"? I am especially interested in responses to the Marx section of the book.
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Is the machinic ontology in Anti-Oedipus metaphysical or psychological?
I am beginning reading Anti-Oedipus and am trying to understand the synthesis of two notions D+G discuss in the first section on Desiring Machines:
The quasi-metaphysical conception of everything as a 'circuit' of flows and interruptions; basically…
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How did subjectivity change with capitalism?
How did human subjectivity change with capitalism? I'm interested in Marxist answers, but I will accept answers from other perspectives. So, less about how our understanding of 'subjectivity' changed during capitalism (e.g. that the subject object…
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Why did Heidegger (postmodernism) ignore Schelling's later thought?
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) seems to be a seriously overlooked figure of modern philosophy: is there a good reason (beyond the merely historical) for his diminished relative importance compared, for instance, to Hegel?
Heidegger admitted that…
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How can Marx be a materialist yet still speak of a human "essence" in his theory of alienation?
On one hand, Marx is a staunch materialist: he bases his theory of history on dialectical materialism, and denies any metaphysical realities above and beyond the material conditions that make human society the way it is. In the preface to A…
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What would Marx say about liberal identity politics?
As far as I know the main post-Marxist criticism of identity politics is that it is divisive, and so prevents the association of the proletariat.
This seems to me to not take liberalism seriously enough, though, as a dominant ideology of a…
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Is the Body without Organs a phase space? Or an image of the actual body?
Reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, I am unclear on the nature of the Body without Organs. Most literature seems to describe this body as a phase space in the mathematical sense of the term, i.e. as consisting of all possible configurations…
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Whats the difference between fixed and constant capital?
Rosa Luxembourg in The Accumulation of Capital describes & investigates the constant and fixed capital of Marx & Smith respectively.
With Marx, she says Constant capital is the value invested in the means of production.
In Chapter 2, she…
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Weber and Marx - Modern Culture and Dominant Culture
Not sure if this is the right forum, but this seems to be the best fit. IF there is a better forum, please direct me.
Marx and Weber are both concerned with the role of "culture" or "idea/ideology" on the material world. Obviously, Weber placing a…
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A Marxist Theory of Justice?
I am stuck in a vast amount of papers concerning Marx's view of justice, written in the 70s, 80s and 90s, disputing and contradicting each other. With my current knowledge of Marx, it is sometimes difficult, sometimes impossible, to decide whose…
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Locke's Anarchy versus Marx's Anarchy
I just got through reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government, and I read quite a bit of Marx a while back. They both have interesting ideas on the state of humans in a world devoid of civilization and basic societal structures. Locke, from what…
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