Race, Class, and Inequality
Aug 08, 2006The concept of equality is as important to America's self-conception as it is confusing. What sort of equality?
It's Karl Marx' 200th Birthday! It is hard to deny that Marx left a lasting, far-reaching impact on the course of history. But how exactly can we distill the core insights of Marx's teachings? Are we to emphasize it his concrete philosophical positions or his contributions to political history around the world?
This wonderfulNew York Timestribute强调并赞扬了这位哲学家对资本主义和压迫结构的批判态度。马克思的务实、批判的态度在我们的社会中经常对我们的制度产生影响。
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html
The concept of equality is as important to America's self-conception as it is confusing. What sort of equality?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is without doubt one of the most influential philosophers of all time.
卡尔·马克思的思想与卢梭、洛克和杰斐逊的思想在塑造20世纪的政治方面不相上下。
Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem to like it very much. But as computers and artificial intelligence get ...
2013年,乔治·齐默尔曼因特雷沃恩·马丁之死被无罪释放,#黑人的生命也很重要运动由此开始,如今已经变成了一场……
The concept of equality is as important to America's self-conception as it is confusing. What sort of equality?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is without doubt one of the most influential philosophers of all time.
卡尔·马克思的思想与卢梭、洛克和杰斐逊的思想在塑造20世纪的政治方面不相上下。
Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem to like it very much. But as computers and artificial intelligence get ...
2013年,乔治·齐默尔曼因特雷沃恩·马丁之死被无罪释放,#黑人的生命也很重要运动由此开始,如今已经变成了一场……
Comments(1)
Harold G. Neuman
Monday, May 7, 2018 -- 12:14 PM
Marxist thought and teachingMarxist thought and teaching certainly left a mark on history. And the core of it all was ostensibly the welfare of common people whose lot in life has never been particularly bright. Or was it? Almost any set of tenets may be distorted for gain of one sort or another. The examples are legion, so I won't belabor them here. We might, indeed, laud his political positions AND his contributions to said political history. Some have done so. Others still do. I wonder if this should go deeper though. I tend to wonder about origins before further examining the effects of one thing or another. What if we could know what Marx' true intentions were? Suppose, for example, that his system was intended, not to benefit the common man, but to afford advantage to repressive government? A transfusion for tyrants and despots? A means for repressing average Joe that average Joe never saw coming, because he bought the notion that Marx and his purported doctrine was for Joe and against repression? Would such awareness still witness the sorts of respect often accorded Mr. Marx? Or might we say: What an act! Worthy of P.T. Barnum himself!
Charlatans have always been skilled at slight-of-hand. Honest men, who pull it off, are still more gifted.