Overview
- Offers a critical-emancipatory reflection on the historical limits of the reproduction of capitalism
- Contrasts human emancipation with the abandonment of the political dimension of praxis in Marx's work
- Provides a comprehensive review of the notion of communism in Marx's work as a foundation for analysis
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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This book investigates communism in Marx’s writings, incorporating a consideration of communist politicity. The author outlines the arguments by which it is possible to sustain—from Marx—the idea that human emancipation against capital also means the elimination of the State, the public, and the political dimension of praxis. He also posits that the concrete tasks of the “management of the common” in a communist society require political mediations that allow us to confront the difference inherent to the personality of freely associated producers, as well as the ontological finitude from which no technical power can evade. Finally, assuming Marx as a starting point whose work remains an inescapable source for “thinking communism,” the book proposes a research agenda from Marx and beyond to continue in this imperative task.
Levy del Aguila Marchena is Senior Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has published extensively on Marx, political philosophy, and applied ethics.
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Book Title: Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Dualism of Realms
Authors: Levy del Aguila Marchena
Translated by: Luis Felipe Bartolo Alegre
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82894-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82893-6Published: 24 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82896-7Published: 25 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82894-3Published: 23 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 282
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology