Dialogue and Universalism Editor’s Note

• Authors: Czarnocka Małgorzata
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The year 2018, the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth, is a special occasion to reflect on his thought, his heirs, and his contribution to the history of humanity. This Dialogue and Universalism project entitled KARL MARX. ON THE OCCASION OF THE BICENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH is—among others undertaken in 2018 all around the world—a tribute to Marx’s work. For many, Karl Marx gave humankind invaluable ideas on how to build a more just human world: how to remove social inequality, liberate people, relegate oppression, enslavement, poverty and exploitation. He created a tre-mendous, almost utopian social-economical vision, a dream, and at the same time a quite concrete project of realizing it. Marx belongs to a not-too-large group of intellectuals whose influence on the fate and form of the world over long years is undeniable. Marx’s conceptions still carry hopes, continue to be valid and current—both in their original forms and in their many different modi-fications and collages. For Dialogue and Universalism—whose mission is to improve, by means of philosophy, the fate of humanity, and to struggle against, among other things, enslavement and oppression—Marx’s work is of special attention. In this age of absolutely dominating and omnipresent capitalism, it is important to understand Marx’s work even more deeply and extensively than it has been in the past, also more purely than it was in the official ideologies of the so-called communist states, in which Marx’s original ideas were frequently warped by immense po-litical pressure, mixed with alien ideas, and in effect often became shallowed or deformed. Of course, this does matter a lot for philosophy and the history of ideas, but it is also essential for real political life—because today’s leftist movements seem to suffer from a deficiency of great ideas which could be the foundation of their activity. Marxian inspirations or returns to Marx’s origi-nal conceptions, however located in today’s social-economical contexts, could be helpful to their social-political awareness. The Dialogue and Universalism editorial team expresses its deep gratitude for Jean-Francois Gava, the guest editor of the Marxian issue.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5

Contributors

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Czarnocka Małgorzata

• IFiS PAN Warszawa