Humanity has experienced an explosion of anti-humanism in the form authoritarian capitalism, postmodern filter bubbles, and global problems. Marxist/Socialist Humanism is proper answer to deep crisis humanity. In this context, article asks ‘How can Cornel West’s works inform a contemporary Marxist humanist theory society?’ Taking as starting point, what are key elements society? West one leadin...

Western societies have developed into a historically new stage in the evolution of capitalism, one which is characterized by corporations exercising monopolistic power and sustaining demand by advertising through the media. While this theme has been emphasized e.g., by J. A. Schumpeter in Business Cycles; A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process, chapter III,...

In this study, we discuss the integration in systematic reviews of research developed from a Marxist perspective of knowledge production and their results as evidence in healthcare. The study objectives are to review the assumptions of dialectical and historical materialism (DHM) and discuss the implications of dialectics for a literature review and the synthesis of evidence. DHM is a powerful ...

Slide 1 Marx was very critical of Malthus. He said that an abstract law of population did not exist for men (Marx, 1974). All historical modes of production have their own special laws of population which are valid only within their limits. Marx discussed the law of population, applicable to capitalist mode of production in chapter XXV of Capital, entitled, “The General Law of Capitalist Accumu...

This paper reconsiders Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization from the perspective of Gayle Rubin’s classic article ‘‘The Traffic in Women.’’ The primary goals of this comparison are to investigate the social and psychological mechanisms that perpetuate the archaic sex/gender system Rubin describes under current conditions of post-industrial capitalism; to open possible new avenues of analysis and lib...