Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Contradiction and Revolution

One Philosopher that Marx is certainly targeting in the 11th Thesis is Feuerbach himself, for reasons that he explains in preceding Theses. The specific 'interpretation' in question is Feuerbach's Materialist proposition that the presumed Spiritual realm of Religion is no more than a projection of, and grounded in, mundane human experience. To that, Marx argues that Feuerbach stops short of questioning the generation of that dualism itself, which, if pursued, exposes the contradictions in social conditions, thereby prompting revolutionary action, i. e. to "change" the world. However, Marx thus reveals only the shortcomings in Feuerbach's Interpretation, without explaining the relation between the cognition of a Contradiction and subsequent Revolution. In other words, by contrasting Interpretation and Change in the 11th Thesis, he severs them, leaving Change groundless, a problem which he addresses only with the presumed Dialectical 'Necessity' that effects the transition from Cognition to Action.

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