Ricardo can you document any of this with citations from Marx, or is this more
undergraduate sociology.
Rod
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
> On 16 May 00, at 17:30, Ted Winslow wrote:
>
> > How about including as categories to be used in understanding these aspects
> > of ourselves the categories of self-determination and of a capacity for full
> > self-determination of thought, desire and action as the "idea" of humanity?
>
> Marx seems a lot closer to the social constructivism that
> dominates much of undergraduate sociology today than Hegel. The
> Kantian/Hegelian concept of self-determination was transformed in
> his hands into a practical-laboring actitivity. He also thought that
> humans are constructed by a determinate set of social relations,
> and that humans can be re-constructed, which was taken to mean
> by many followers that those who know what is good for everyone
> else have the right to reconstruct the deceived "masses". Che
> called this reconstructed self the "new man". But if Hegel was
> right, modern humans will never tolerate any such constructions
> except under terms which they have set for themselves (in a
> democratic setting).
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