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The Holy Family - Critique of Critical Critique (Paperback)
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The Holy Family - Critique of Critical Critique (Paperback)
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The Holy Family
By Karl Marx and F. Engels
The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Critique. Against Bruno
Bauer and Co. is the first joint work of Karl Marx and Frederick
Engels. At the end of August 1844 Marx and Engels met in Paris and
their meeting was the beginning of their joint creative work in all
fields of theoretical and practical revolutionary activity. By this
time Marx and Engels had completed the transition from idealism to
materialism and from revolutionary democratism to communism. The
polemic The Holy Family was written in Paris in autumn 1844. It
reflects the progress in the formation of Marx and Engels's
revolutionary materialistic world outlook.
In The Holy Family Marx and Engels give a devastating criticism of
the subjectivist views of the Young Hegelians from the position of
militant materialists. They also criticize Hegel's own idealistic
philosophy: giving credit for the rational element in his
dialectics, they criticize the mystic side of it.
The Holy Family formulates a number of fundamental theses of
dialectical and historical materialism. In it Marx already
approaches the basic idea of historical materialism - the decisive
role of the mode of production in the development of society.
Refuting the idealistic views of history which had dominated up to
that time, Marx and Engels prove that of themselves progressive
ideas can lead society only beyond the ideas of the old system and
that "in order to carry out ideas men are needed who dispose of a
certain practical force." (See p. 160 of the present edition.) The
proposition put forward in the book that the mass, the people, is
the real maker of the history of mankind is of paramount
importance. Marx and E n gels show that the wider and the more
profound a change taking place in society's, the more numerous the
mass effecting that change will be. Lenin especially stressed the
importance of this thought and described it as one of the most
profound and most important theses of historical materialism.
The Holy Family contains the almost mature view of the historic
role of the proletariat as the class which, by virtue of its
position in capitalism, "can and must free itself" and at the same
time abolish all the inhuman conditions of life of bourgeois
society, for "not in vain does" the proletariat "go through the
stern but steeling school of labor. The question is not what this
or that proletarian, or even the whole of the proletariat at the
moment considers as its aim. The question is what the proletariat
is, and what, consequent on that being; it will be compelled to
do." (Pp. 52-53.)
A section of great importance is "Critical Battle against French
Materialism" in which Marx, briefly outlining the development of
materialism in...
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