MARX, WORK AND THE 21ST CENTURY / WSG5: MARXISM & PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

C. Ritchie writes with verve and insight from the standpoint of a worker who grew up in the closing years of the 20th century up and reached a full understanding of the world of work in capitalist society in the 21st. His starting point is the living reality of millions of people who enter a labour market not, on the surface, much like that of their parents and seemingly remote from the 19th century when Karl Marx analysed capitalist society

In Marxism & Philosophy in the 21st Century: Materialism & Idealism, C. Ritchie accessibly considers the history of philosophy in relation to Marxism. Ritchie describes the differences between Ancient Greek atomists, empiricism, 18th and 19th century idealists, metaphysics, Descartes, materialism, and post-modernism. Ritchie considers the modern understanding of freedom, and the difference between choice and variety. He also examines Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony, his views on the importance of intellectuals.

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