Marx & Engels & Communitarians

Question 1

What is Marx objection to liberalism

Answer 1

liberal rights of security, equality, property, and liberty encourage us to view others as limitations on our own freedom, they encourage feelings of separation and isolation

Question 2

What are Marx’s two distinct forms of emancipation

Answer 2

political emancipation and human emancipation.

Question 3

Political Emancipation

Answer 3

only the way for citizens to get rights protected by the state.

Question 4

human emancipation

Answer 4

enables human beings to gain the access to true freedom which means to live in a classless society and enjoy communal rights.

Question 5

Why does Engels think Capitalism is wasteful and inefficient

Answer 5

• unemployment (not putting everyone to use)
• overproduction of resources
• consumption creates artificial needs
• exploitation of workers

Question 6

Why do communitarians disagree with liberalism/individualism

Answer 6

Liberalism focuses on individualism and the rights of individual people, creates isolation of people who solely pursue their own good.

Communitarians argue we are thoroughly social beings, our identities and self-understandings are bound up with the communities in which we are placed