The Next Development in Man by L. L. Whyte

Author:L. L. Whyte
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Mentor Books
Published: 0101-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The power of such scientific self-knowledge is so great that even limited and distorted components of such knowledge have been sufficient to destroy old civilizations and create new ones, and to inspire comparable revolutions in the human mind. Karl Marx saw to the very roots of the dialectical situation in which man was placed in the nineteenth cehtury. His thought was narrow, his theories limited and of temporary validity, and his conclusions often wrong. But the form which he gave his thought, his method of thinking about man, went to the heart of the human situation at the time. The vigor of Marxism sprang from the fact that it tapped this new source of power. From one point of view, Marx and Engels were fully conscious of this fact. They knew that if men could recognize the nature of the historical process and accept their own role in it, they could escape the futile struggles of subjective idealism, and recover conviction, integrity, and courage, in the process of transforming the world. This is the universal truth which they recognized nearly a century back, but has still to be fully absorbed into the general tradition. The historical process was to them an economic class struggle and it was for the workers to serve as the willing agents of history, and to redouble their power by becoming aware of their historical role. Here the interpretation given to the situation was too narrow. A new integrity of action replaced the frustration of subjective idealism, but at the cost of a loss of individual judgment. The individual, in identifying his will with the economic interests of a particular class, had forfeited his own right to think.

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