Thursday, March 16, 2023

Marxist Philosophy - Bryan Magee & Charles Taylor (1978)




Marxist philosophy appears to me somewhat like a cartoon we had at work of a person writing a giant complicated equation on a chalkboard and the equation has a term "and then a miracle occurs". One miracle Karl Marx believed in was that post-revolution society would be conflict-free. This results in Marxist regimes having no way to accommodate pluralistic values, but rather they must punish/remove/silence those not adhering to the party line. 

“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it.” - Karl Marx

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet Act 1