Reply to a Proposed Revision of Marx’s THESIS 11 [On
Feuerbach].
Dear Reader,
I have responded to a recent blog-entry post proposing a
revision the final thesis of Marx’s eleven, new world-view-founding “Theses On
Feuerbach”.
I have posted a link to that blog-post, together with my
response, below.
ENJOY!!!
Regards,
Miguel
Dear Professor Santos,
It is a telling ‘‘‘psychohistorical’’’ phenomenon of our
times! You are not the only Marxian who
has felt the need to enhance Marx’s culminant thesis on Feuerbach, thesis 11.
Of the present Marxian tendencies -- the tendencies that
eschew all forms of sub-peripheral “pure” state-bureaucratic
state-capitalism/pseudo-socialism -- Leninoid, Trotskyoid, Stalinoid, Maoid,
Castroid, Unoid, etc., etc., ad nauseam -- as well as of hybrid,
private-capital-dominated/state-bureaucratic-class-administered state-capitalism
-- Hitleroid, Fascist, Falangist, Peronist, Salazaroid, etc., as well as the
forms prevalent in the core capitalist countries today -- the present Marxian
tendency that I like best has enhanced Marx’s eleventh thesis to the following:
“The philosophers have only interpreted the
world, in various ways; the point, however, is for us to change
our presently still “prehistoric” human world, in the direction of, and all the
way through to the actualization of, a global Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, and
thus to enable, thereby, that regime of a continuing GLOBAL renaissance of
humanity -- the first such ever -- a regime of the growing global flourishing
of human Nature and of planetary exo-human Nature alike, the regime that Political-ECONOMIC
DEMOCRACY makes possible.”
Like you, they see the need to integrate “non-human” Nature, both theoretically and practically, into the movement for planetary
self-liberation, showing how humanity is an outgrowth of pre-human Nature, by
way of principles and processes that are generic in Nature as the
totality; showing that humanity is a self-extension of, and a predictable
self-continuation of, pre-human Nature itself.
Indeed, they have resurrected Engels’s unfinished
“Dialectics of Nature” in a form deeply conversant with contemporary modern
science, and with contemporary modern mathematics. They have revived it into the form of a
unitary, natural-historically-generic “DIALECTIC [singular] of
Nature”, containing separate, successive, and progressive epochs of natural
history, each with its own natural-historically-specific
“dialectical-natural laws”, each such “law” a variant of, but each also fully
conformant with, that natural-historically-generic ‘self-aufheben’
dialectical ‘‘‘law of Nature’’’ [singular].
Their detailed definition of “Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY”
can be found at --
Their voluminous work in general is freely available via: www.dialectics.info
.
Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, THESIS 3 --
"The materialist doctrine concerning the changing of circumstances and upbringing forgets that circumstances are changed by [human beings] and that it is essential to educate the [educators themselves]. This doctrine must, therefore, divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society."
"The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice." --
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