Rethinking the Revolutionary Significance of Marx's Concept of the Proletariat:Research based on the Writings from the Period of the German-French Yearbook
Young Marx regarded critique and struggle as the same thing,and the concept of the proletariat was formed in the dual context of political and philosophical critique.Politically,the proletariat was not just an actor in the overthrow of bourgeois rule;the concept had a broader revolutionary meaning,embodying Marx's liquidation of political conservatism,his critique of bourgeois liberalism,his abandonment of radical democracy,and his absorption of French socialist and communist thinking.Philosophically,through his critique of Hegel's philosophy of right,Marx exposed the false universality of the bureaucratic hierarchy and established the true universality of the proletariat,and that only a proletarian revolution could fundamentally renounce the divisive position of civil society and make human emancipation possible.
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