Chapter 19 man s relation to his productive activity chapter 20 man s relation to his product chapter 21 man s relation to his fellow men chapter 22 man s relation to his species chapters 2528 alienation and the law of value to buy this book. Thanks to the internet, the concept of a personal library is changing. Harvey, david a companion to marxs capital free ebook download as pdf file. Pontuso hampdensydney college since the collapse of eurocommunism in 1989, the ideas of marx have largely been discarded as little more than historical relics. Harvey, david a companion to marxs capital marxist. Fromm very strongly draws on marx s 1844 manuscripts and explains his understanding of marx s humanism by quoting both the manuscripts and marx s whole body of work. He also draws attention to the following rather surprisngstatement in sweezy 1968, p. The governments that marxism spawns are among the most brutal in history. The publication of economic and philosophical manuscripts, however, has led many to realize that he is keenly interested in developing individual potentialities, realizing human essence and nurturing talents. Marx s concept of man by erich fromm 2004 english pdf.
What is interesting, however, is that marx relies on productive activity, on labour. Harvey, david a companion to marxs capital marxist theory. Marx concept of alienation can not be talked of without taking his views on man, society, nature and freedom as we have said earlier. Short and clear little book on, well, marx s concept of man. He is a small man who takes small steps, as if a strong wind could, at any time, whisk him up into. Marx s philosophy, like much of existentialist thinking, represents a protest against man s alienation, his loss of himself and his transformation into a thing. The problem of consciousness, social structure and the use of force 19 4. A provocative new view of marx stressing his humanist philosophy and challenging both soviet distortion and western ignorance of his basic thinking.
For long, the feeling has been that marx views man essentially in terms of his material interests. Marx s concept of socialism is a protest, as is all existentialist philosophy, against the alienation of man. The problem of consciousness, social structure and the use of force 4. All these are inseparable concepts in a consistent philosophical system. Frankls theoryknown as logotherapy, from the greek word logos.