Marxism and Revolutionary Theory

In its emergence, Marxism aimed to overcome man's alienation from the products of his own theoretical endeavor. But its development was in the opposite direction. A consciousness complemented by a rationalist philosophy became objectivism. He surrendered to a "materialist understanding of history" that claimed to explain every society with the development of technology. People no longer produce history, but history and the technical people who determine it. It has become the credo of Marxism that everything is "matter" and that matter is entirely "mind" and that they are subject to the "laws of dialectics". Since there was an absolute knowledge of history, the autonomous actions of people no longer had any meaning. Political action could be perceived as a technical effort. Castoriadis's aim is to recapture the first source of inspiration of Marxism and remind us that people create history with what they do, say and design. To consider history as an ontological birth and a process established in the imagination of society, to show that history is inherent in people. In this book, you will find the philosophical foundations of the fact that the power to transform the society that people institutionalize, that is, to make history, belongs to no one other than humans.



Number of Pages: 293

Year of Printing: 1997


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Yayincilik

Number of Pages: 293

Year of First Printing: 1997

Language: Turkish