>"From this relationship (that between women and men in a given society-
CB) one can therefore judge man’s whole level of
development "( in a given society-CB)
- Karl Max Economic and
Philosophic
Manuscripts of 1844
Here Marx enunciates an extremely
high standard of feminism
for Marxism
Br'er Rabbit
^^^
See passage from Marx here
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm
...In the approach to woman as the spoil and hand-maid of communal
lust
is expressed the infinite degradation in which man exists for himself,
for the secret of this approach has its unambiguous, decisive, plain
and
undisguised expression in the relation of man to woman and in the
manner
in which the direct and natural species-relationship is conceived. The
direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the
relation of man to woman. In this natural species-relationship man’s
relation to nature is immediately his relation to man, just as his
relation to man is immediately his relation to nature - his own
natural
destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously
manifested,
reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence
has
become nature to man, or to which nature to him has become the human
essence of man.
>From this relationship one can therefore judge man’s whole level of
development. From the character of this relationship follows how much
man as a species-being, as man, has come to be himself and to
comprehend
himself; the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of
human being to human being. It therefore reveals the extent to which
man’s natural behaviour has become human, or the extent to which the
human essence in him has become a natural essence - the extent to
which
his human nature has come to be natural to him. This relationship also
reveals the extent to which man’s need has become a human need; the
extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become
for
him a need - the extent to which he in his individual existence is at
the same time a social being.
The first positive annulment of private property - crude communism -
is
thus merely a manifestation of the vileness of private property, which
wants to set itself up as the positive community system.
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