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Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx

Part of the Marx, Engels, and Marxisms Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82894-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-82893-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 24, 2021

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Chapter 1Introduction

del Aguila Marchena, Levy

Pages: 1 –26

[This is an investigation about communism: in particular, about Marx’s communism, the scope and plausibility of his aspiration, as well as about his utopianism and the perplexities it involves. For this very reason, it is about the political dimension of social activity: that dimension where the...
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Chapter 2Reconciling Praxis with Itself

del Aguila Marchena, Levy

Pages: 27 –84

[The notion of communism in Marx usually appears in a fragmentary and unsystematic way throughout his work. In this chapter, we propose an approach to the central elements that would be part of this notion, considering textual sources coming from various Marxian writings. First, we formulate the...
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Chapter 3Marx and the Abandonment of Political Power

del Aguila Marchena, Levy

Pages: 85 –149

[Marx’s work offers a permanent dispute against the State and the public sphere as the political counterparts of class exploitation, specifically for the case of modern societies; that is, a pathos of profound contempt for politics dominates Marx’s work. This chapter expounds the main assumptions...
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Chapter 4Communist Politics and Management of the Life in Common

del Aguila Marchena, Levy

Pages: 151 –220

[MarxianThis chapter identifies in Marx a notion of communism based on the duality between the domain of necessity and the domain of freedom, applied to the processes of production of material and spiritual life (“dualism of realms”). In our judgment, this duality restricts the possibilities of...
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Chapter 5Communism From Marx and Beyond Marx

del Aguila Marchena, Levy

Pages: 221 –265

[The purpose of thinking communism from Marx and beyond Marx organizes the contents of this chapter. At this closing point, we focus on some of the few fragments of the Marxian work where the place of politics in a hypothetical post-capitalist society is formulated, fundamentally around the...

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