Humanism

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Humanism is a philosophical stance centered around humans.

Bourgeois humanism

The Enlightenment replaced religion with rationalist idealism or mechanical materialism. This bourgeois humanism was the concept of abstract individual, devoid of material relations. Despite supposedly being centered around humans, it treated women and colonized people as subhuman.^[1]

Proletarian humanism

Marx wrote that, "Communism is humanism mediated with itself through the supersession of private property. Only when we have superseded this mediation...will positive humanism, positively originating in itself, come into being."^[2]

References

↑ John Bellamy Foster (2023-01-01). "Marx’s Critique of Enlightenment Humanism: A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30.
↑ “communism is humanism mediated with itself through the supersession of private property. Only when we have superseded this mediation – which is, however, a necessary precondition – will positive humanism, positively originating in itself, come into being.”

Karl Marx (1844). Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts: 'Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy'. [MIA]

[1] John Bellamy Foster (2023-01-01). "Marx’s Critique of Enlightenment Humanism: A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30.

[2] “communism is humanism mediated with itself through the supersession of private property. Only when we have superseded this mediation – which is, however, a necessary precondition – will positive humanism, positively originating in itself, come into being.”

Karl Marx (1844). Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts: 'Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy'. [MIA]

[1]

[2]