thoughts on the important distinction between ‘material’ and ‘social’ properties and relations in Marxist analysis
All tagged G.A. Cohen
thoughts on the important distinction between ‘material’ and ‘social’ properties and relations in Marxist analysis
Some quotes from Marx, and many quotes from Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution.
In Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G.A. Cohen quotes Marx from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) in one of the most useful epigraphs I’ve ever encountered. A full reproduction of the passage, and some small discussion.
I describe how we might understand our ‘identity’ in the normative sense, through Wilfred Sellars’ framework from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. I connect this to discussions of Kantian understandings of the sources of our obligations.