Notes for Illuminating Freedom and Knowledge in Das Kapital:Aristotle, Leibniz, and Spinoza
Release time: 2021-06-29
Darko Suvin
ABSTRACT
To understand some central presuppositions of Marx within an anti-scientistic and anti-bourgeois horizon, such as knowledge and freedom, some central elements within Leibniz and Spinosa are discussed, with a glance at Hegel. Capital turns out to be an anti-Leibnizian monad, while Das Kapital is undergirded by a Spinozist value-political treatise.
KEYWORDS: Epistemology; freedom; Marx; Leibniz; Spinoza
From: International Critical Thought 2021 11 (1)
Editor: Wang Yi
ACADEMY OF MARXISM CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES