The Future in the Writings of Karl Marx

Download or read book The Future in the Writings of Karl Marx written by Joel Tabora and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1983 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in critical humanistic intent that Marx attempted the overturning of Hegel's dialectic in Historical Materialism: understanding future human humanity as the necessary overcoming («Aufhebung») of private productivity which fails to satisfy man's human need. This study, based on a spectrum of primary sources from the young to the mature Marx, presents the critical function and the praxis-inductive role the future had in Marx's thought. The promise that continues to live in this thought is thereby explicitated. It is however a promise premised on a persistent idealism in Marx's claimed materialism which compromises the depth of man's human need in a future whose realization is necessarily (only) future.