This is such horseshit. This is a peculiarly French variety of
humanism and anti-humanism. It has nothing to do with how the concept
is understood in the English-speaking world. Humanism is not metaphysics.
The problem with humanism in the USA is different, as its
relationship to Marxism. See
Aside from the hammer-and-sickle, and photos of Marx or other iconic
figures, what other emblem of socialism can you think of?
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CB: In Althusser's terms, the mature Marx significantly
relocates humanism and essentialism, philosophical
anthropology to human labor in that it is a main
source of value; and there is a sense of human
essence in the abstract equality of all abstract
human labor. It's homogeneous and
Here is more elaboration of human essence in
labor in the abstract, human species-being.
For Marx, labor is human creative essence.
Making is essentially human ( as is making out;
smile)
Of course human leisure, play, recreation
is of
species-being , and human essence , too.
In this sense,
Althusser says:
In 1845, Marx broke radically with every
theory that based history and politics on an
essence of man. This unique rupture contained
three indissociable elements.
(1) The formation of a theory of history and
politics based on radically new concepts: the
concepts of social
Benjamin Franklin defines humans as
toolmakers, Franklin anthropology.
Control of fire, chemistry, is toolmaking,
and Promethean anthropology.
CB
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch07.htm
An instrument of labour is a thing, or a complex
of things, which the labourer
