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A Critique of the Relationship between Human Will and Objective Laws in Traditional Marxist Philosophy
ZHANG Wen-xi
Teaching and Research
2010, (6):
6-13.
The point of view of traditional Marxist philosophy on the relationship between subjective initiative and objective laws was caught in a difficult dilemma of revolutionary will and historical laws.This expresses the tension and conflict between the two world views——the vulgar(mechanical) materialism and the subjective idealism.This was evidenced by the internal logic of the Marxist theorists of the Second International more than by Lukacs/Kolls’s criticism of Merlin/Plekhanov.Vulgar(mechanical) Marxism’s love for Spinozasim was as strong as it’s preference to Fichte’s activism,and Marx had insisted that this should be understood from the perspective of association within the contradiction.This association shows that will and laws are coexisting and dichotomous in the social organism.Compared with the questions of why and how to follow historical laws,voluntarism was the response to a social organism theory,and a social organism theory should not ignore either voluntarism or mechanical materialism.The critique of relationship between human will and objective laws in traditional Marxist philosophy is both a most penetrating account of vulgar Marxism and an insightful explanation of how the subjective initiative of Marxist philosophy is firmly based on materialism.
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