Thursday, October 30, 2014

Self, Time, History

As has been previously discussed, Marx's concept of  Laborer is derived from Kant's concept of Self.  Now, entailed in the latter is the concept of Time as a Form of Experience, with respect to which Objective Time is abstracted.  But, History is a species of Time.  Thus, any concept of Objective History abstracts from personal experience.  Hence, a proper Marxist concept of Object History conceives it as a mystification that perpetuates the powerlessness of the Proletariat, not as a process immanent in Matter.  Likewise, a decisive moment in the awakening of Class Consciousness is the awareness that workers can make History, and not merely endure it.

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