Eugene Kamenka 1962

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism

Published: by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

Preface
Preliminaries: Marx, Marxism and Ethics

Part 1: The Primitive Ethic of Karl Marx

1 The Philosophy of the Concept
2 The Free Individual
3 The Natural Law of Freedom
4 The ‘Truly Human’ Society

Part II: Karl Marx’s Road to Communism

5 The New Social Dialectic
6 The Critique of Politics
7 The Critique of Economics
8 Communism and the Complete, Unalienated Man

Part III: Critical Resume: Ethics and the Young Marx

9 Ethics — Positive of Normative?
10 The Rejection of Moralism, of ‘Rights’ and of Normative Law
11 Ethics and the ‘Truly Human’ Society

Part IV: Ethics and the Mature Marx

12 The New Edifice: Historical Materialism and the Rejection of ‘Philosophy’
13 The Materialist Interpretation of History and Marx’s Critique of Moralities
14 Historical Materialism and the Overcoming of Alienation

Part V: Communism and Ethics

15 Ethics and the Communist Party
16 Law and Morality in Soviet Society

Conclusions

Citations and Abreviations
Footnotes

The Ethical Foundations of Marxism

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