IN HIS article "Marx vs. the myth of human nature," Paul D'Amato--a socialist whom I have the upmost respect for--makes the traditional but categorical mistake of informing his readers that Marx ...

The "human nature" view of the world assumes that humans ... and to pass those skills on to their offspring. As Karl Marx wrote: Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion ...

So — how can a Marxist approach help us to answer the question: does “human nature” exist and if so what is it? Among his early writings, the 26-year-old Karl Marx declared:“Humans live from nature… ...

This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological ...

Thus it is necessary to highlight the fact that “human nature,” is not immutable. It changes through time and from place to place according to specific social, economic and cultural environments. As ...

Karl Marx ridiculed this hubris long ago ... and the proponents of those systems also said they were in accordance with human nature. Not only is capitalism a fairly new phenomenon historically ...

Marx certainly wanted to see justice and prosperity ... Socialism, then, does not depend on some miraculous change in human nature. Some of those who defended feudalism against capitalist values ...

Marx’s version of human nature is a problem, Arendt argues, because it subordinates political questions to economic forces. Arendt’s arguments in the material assembled here are wide ranging and often ...

But Marx and Engels themselves immediately recognised ... that it doesn’t take into account so-called human nature, and so on. The many attempts, stemming from the Frankfurt School of social ...

and revolutionary Karl Marx. The second current of thought, embodied in the writings of 17th-century Englishmen Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville, viewed human nature as more nearly the ...