American [Brand of] Marxism [continues]

 

 American Marxism [ continues]

 

 Class Struggle vs Individual Free Will?

 

A prolific writer and prominent advocate of Marxism  was John Dewey. (1859-1952) His role in drastically altering the traditional purposes of education into a social activism movement is manifest throughout education today.

 Dewey acknowledged and approved of Marxism's influence on, and relationship to, the progressive movement: 

"[T|he issue which [Marx] raised-the relation the economic structure to political- -is one that actively persists.

 Indeed, it forms the only basis of present political question... We are in for some kind of socialism, call it by whatever name you may  please, and no matter what it will be called when it is related is "Economic determinism," [Marx's theory of economic class struggle between, among others, the capitalist and the proletariat| now  a fact, not a theory. But there is a difference and a choice beneath a blind, chaotic and unplanned determinism, issuing from business conducted for pecuniary profit, and the determination socially planned and ordered development":

" It is the difference and the choice between a socialism that is public and one that is capitalistic."

 But there is no "economic determinism" when individuals are free to pursue their own goals and dreams. Economic struggle  is the false label given to hard work,competition, Free Will,personal motivation, responsibility and life lessons and hacks and the satisfaction of individual needs and desires, the creation and pursuit of  opportunities with accountability..etc. 

All of the above can be summarised as the fulfillment of individual desires and manifest complexities of each and every human being.

Excerpt from the Book, American Marxism by Mark E Levin.

( Opinion and research by Digital Anvil)