Hegel, Marx, Gramsci : People, Nation, Revolution

Creative Activity and Alienation in Hegel and Marx

For Marx, work is the fundamental and central activity in human life and, potentially at least, a fulŽlling and liberating activity. Although this view is implicit throughout Marx’s work, there is little explicit explanation or defence of it. The fullest treatment is in the account of ‘estranged labour ’ [entfremdete Arbeit] in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts;1 but, even there, Marx ...

Individual and Society in Marx and Hegel: Beyond the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism*

Marx’s concepts of individual and society have their roots in Hegel’s philosophy. Like recent communitarian philosophers, both Marx and Hegel reject the idea that the individual is an atomic entity, an idea that runs through liberal social philosophy and classical economics. Human productive activity is essentially social. However, Marx shows that the liberal concepts of individuality and socie...

Gramsci and His Views

Dr. D avidson’s book, w hich is in fact a fusion of his own ideas w ith the Ita lian philosopher Gramsci, w ill m ake in teresting reading for m ost com m unists and those of the left who are genuinely in terested in radical social change. I t w ill be appreciated by m any ran k and file communists, in particu lar, as the first real work to give a guide to the Ita lian style m arxism and the p ...

A nation of people called patients.

The implications of the causal and ubiquitous use, by doctors health-workers and politicians, of the word 'patient' are here discussed. Given that the many implications of this noun do not include health or normality (rather the contrary), it is questionable who, if anyone, profits from its indiscriminate use--and its use, even, at all.

Review of Rebecca Comay, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution