On Violence by Hannah Arendt

Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780156695008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Appendices

I, TO PAGE [>], NOTE 16

Professor B. C. Parekh, of Hull University, England, kindly drew my attention to the following passage in the section on Feuerbach from Marx’s and Engels’ German Ideology (1846), of which Engels later wrote: “The portion finished...only proves how incomplete at that time was our knowledge of economic history.” “Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of man [des Menschen] on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.” (Quoted from the edition by R. Pascal, New York, 1960, pp. xv and 69.) Even in these, as it were, pre-Marxist utterances, the distinction between Marx’s and Sartre’s positions is evident. Marx speaks of “the alteration of man on a mass scale,” and of a “mass production of consciousness,” not of the liberation of an individual through an isolated act of violence. (For the German text, see Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe, 1932, I. Abteilung, vol. 5, pp. 59 f.)

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