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#Karl marx dialectic materialism free#
These are not the ‘inexorable’ laws of Stalinist Diamat but a humanistic assertions of our abilities as humans to free ourselves from the partial existence of our lives under capitalism. The second section is more challenging (or at least for me) as it draws on and explores the making of ‘man’ as a critique of alienation through the integration of dialectical understandings of the ‘natural’ and the ‘social’ world in a way that makes humanity the agent of its own creation trough struggles for liberation and socialism. I found this more straightforward, but then I understand the philosophical style and have a sound grasp of the Hegelian dialectic and well as the Marx & Engels texts discussed. The discussion of Hegel, focussing on the development and form of the Hegelian dialectic and its adaptation by Marx & Engels, is close to the traditions of analytical philosophy, highlighting the logic structure of the Hegelian dialectic along with the language use throughout as well as the structure and form of responses as they emerge from work by Marx and Engels. Some critics will (and have) suggested that approaches of the kind Lefebvre develops here are misguided in that they are over-reliant on the (so-called) ‘Early Marx’, before Capital and the like, but to my mind this work is better understood as laying the humanist basis for the later more explicitly political economic analyses. The second section (which many will find demanding) explores and extends Marx & Engels’s (separately and together) humanist philosophy and politics of human action, drawing on, for instance, Engels’ Dialectics of Nature but also on Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts.
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Whereas Diamat solidified the world into an inexorable set of law-bound steps towards (state) socialism, Lefebvre’s is an invigorating case for a humanist outlook which in its first section (about ⅔ of the text) explores in a sympathetic but deeply critical manner both the Hegelian dialectic and Marx’s critical reformation of it.
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This superb short book published in 1938 draws together much of that work, and for those of us schooled in the stultifying Stalinist orthodoxy of Diamat (dialectical materialism) a deeply unsettling piece. This superb short book published in 1938 draws together much of that work, and for those of us schoo Henri Lefebvre is best known in the English-reading world for his later works laying some of the foundations for cultural studies, his inspiration of and links with the Situationists and his writings on space and cities, all of which is fabulous work but it is a shame that is overshadows some of his earlier work, including his time while still (kind of) in favour in the Communist Party of France. Henri Lefebvre is best known in the English-reading world for his later works laying some of the foundations for cultural studies, his inspiration of and links with the Situationists and his writings on space and cities, all of which is fabulous work but it is a shame that is overshadows some of his earlier work, including his time while still (kind of) in favour in the Communist Party of France.