Category: philosophy
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Marxist Philosophy -3
III. THE DIALECTICAL METHODThe dialectical method represents a fundamental advance over metaphysical thinking. Where metaphysics sees fixed things, dialectics sees processes; where metaphysics creates rigid oppositions, dialectics grasps movement and development.“The great basic thought that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of readymade things, but as a complex of processes, in…
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Marxist Philosophy -4
IV. THE FAILURE OF THE YOUNG HEGELIANSFollowing Hegel’s death, a movement emerged among German philosophers claiming to radicalize and critique his system. These Young Hegelians presented themselves as revolutionaries overthrowing outdated ideas. Yet their critique, despite its radical pretensions, never escaped the prison of pure thought.“German criticism has, right up to its latest efforts, never…
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Unproductive, Unemployed, Redundant and Exploited Labour
Surplus population and exploitation Capitalist accumulation produces labour mass in multiple and qualitatively distinct forms. These forms are frequently collapsed into one another in economic and political discourse, resulting in conceptual confusion and a moralised understanding of capitalist exploitation. Poverty is often equated with exploitation, inequality is treated as exploitation, and unemployment itself is understood…