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Marx and the End of History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Robert C. Tucker
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The hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Marx's birth is a more propitious occasion for commemoration of him than the hundredth would have been. In May, 1918, the world was at war, and not much concerned with such ceremonies. A party of Marxist revolutionaries had just taken power in Russia, but the future of that revolution, and others like it, was still unclear. And some early philosophical writings of Marx, knowledge of which was destined greatly to deepen our understanding of the genesis and meaning of Marxism, were still lying in archives and unknown to all but a very few. It was still too soon to assess the historical significance of Marx. Now we are better situated in time to make the assessment.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 16 , Issue 64 , December 1968 , pp. 165 - 174
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Copyright © 1968 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Address to a Symposium, "Karl Marx Heute," held in Trier, May 5, 1968 by the German UNESCO Commission. Copyright Robert C. Tucker 1968.

2 "Und wie alles Natürliche entstehn muss, so hat auch der Mensch seinen Entstehungsakt, die Geschichte…".

3 "Mit dieser Gesellschaftsformation schliesst daher die Vorgeschichte der menschlichen Gesellschaft ab".

4 "Der Kommunismus ist die notwendige Gestalt und das energische Prinzip der nächsten Zukunft, aber der Kommunismus ist nicht als solcher das Ziel der menschlichen Entwicklung, die Gestalt der menschlichen Gesellschaft."

5 See, for example, Martin Buber, Paths in Utopia (London, 1949), ch. VIII, and Robert Tucker, Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (Cambridge 1961), ch. XIII.

6 R.I. Evans, Dialogue with Erik Erikson (New York, Evanston and London, 1967), p. 33.