Quotes by Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader

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materialism objectivity spirit subjectivity hegel marx antithesis idealism philosophy praxis theory absolute-knowledge alienation dialectical-materialism entfremdung geist german-philosophy god ontology selbstisch world-spirit alienated-labor bourgeois capital capitalism communism entfremdungsgeschichte estrangement free-conscious-producer labor

“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as such antitheses in the s...”
— Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader
antithesis idealism materialism objectivity

“Hegel represents history as the self-realization of spirit (Geist) or God. The fundamental scheme of his theory is as follows. Spirit is self-creative energy imbued with a drive to become fully con...”
— Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader
absolute-knowledge alienation dialectical-materialism entfremdung

“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed...”
— Robert C. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader
alienated-labor bourgeois capital capitalism