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Marx and freedom
Authors: Kioupkiolis, Alexandros
Reviewer: Sevastakis, Nikolaos
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Abstract:
Marx assigns a central role to the emancipation of individuals' creative activity, envisioning its liberation from predetermined truths and spheres of action (such as through the abolition of the division of labor). At the same time, he imagines the construction of a free collective that consciously shapes its own forms, rather than submitting to social fetishisms and autonomous systemic forces. On the other hand, he equates free life with specific conceptions of the good — such as the multifaceted, ongoing development of skills, needs, and infrastructures — particular forms of consciousness (secular, materialistic, and instrumental in relation to nature), and distinct forms of sociality (harmonious coexistence in a society cleansed of radical political conflicts, abolition of the market, and centralized social control of the economy based solely on the social ownership of the means of production).
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4811
Bibliographic Reference: Kioupkiolis, A. (2015). Marx and freedom [Chapter]. In Kioupkiolis, A. 2015. Philosophies of freedom [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4811
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Philosophies of freedom
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions