Impressions of Marxist Philosophy (Midterm Paper for Marxist Philosophy)
Like many people, my first encounter with Marxist philosophy was in the political theory textbook in high school. Of course, my impression at the time was not a good one. That kind of “Marxism” dismissed so-called idealist metaphysics and incomplete materialism and the like—every kind of non-Marxist philosophy—as worth nothing at all, and that was precisely what first made me suspicious: I imagined that those idealist philosophers could hardly all have been fools; as thinkers who had made it into history, they must, in any case, have been much smarter than I was, so why would they go to the trouble of producing theories that were worthless and collapsed at…
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