Defender of Human Value: Reviving a Real Marx

Yan Chen

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Yan Chen

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marxism, eagleton, human value, future applicability

Abstract

Marxism was unfairly treated as a piece of cliche and a social system with contempt of human value. However, is it really the case? Terry Eagleton, one of the leading figures of western Marxist literary critique of all time, clarifies ten prevailing misreading towards Marxism in his book Why Marx Was Right. Various are the fallacies, we can clearly sense the theoretical foundation of Eagleton as human-value-oriented Marxism towards the ten misreads. Starting from this, he progressed further argument in terms of politics, humanity and economics, which clarifies a real Marx and the real Marxism. What is more, is nowadays full of changes, Marxism, a system vibrant with energy, is bound to nurture a positive mind, a positive society and a positive world.

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Defender of Human Value: Reviving a Real Marx. (2015). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 15(G1), 43-48. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1440

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