Ideas of K Marx / F Engels, by Theme

[German, fl. 1848, Founders of the communist movement]

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
5278 Philosophy is no more than abstractions concerning observations of human historical development
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
5287 Philosophical problems are resolved into empirical facts
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
5303 For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness
23872 'Society determines consciousness' is contradictory; society only exists in minds [Weil]
5277 Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
5280 Language co-exists with consciousness, and makes it social
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
5276 The nature of an individual coincides with what they produce and how they produce it
5281 Consciousness is a social product
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
21998 Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique
5289 When aristocracy or the bourgeoisie dominate, certain values dominate with them
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
5274 Young Hegelians proposed changing our present consciousness for liberating critical consciousness
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness
5275 Men distinguish themselves from animals when they begin to produce their means of subsistence
21992 Producing their own subsistence distinguishes men from animals
5292 Individuals are mutually hostile unless they group together in competition with other groups
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
5293 Only in community are people able to cultivate their gifts, and therefore be free
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism
5273 Young Hegelians think consciousness is chains for men, where old Hegelians think it the bond of society
5282 If the common interest imposes on the individual, his actions become alienated and enslaving
5283 In communist society we are not trapped in one activity, but can act freely
5288 The class controlling material production also controls mental production
5290 The revolutionary class is opposed to 'class', and represents all of society
5294 To assert themselves as individuals, the proletarians must overthrow the State
5302 Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees
5304 Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property
5307 Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
5285 Slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market
5284 Communism abolishes private property and dissolves the powerful world market
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
5306 The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
5291 The law says private property is the result of the general will
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
5305 Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
5279 Human history must always be studied in relation to industry and exchange
5286 Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
5301 The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles