Table of Contents

Part 1. The Primitive Ethic of Karl Marx1. The Philosophy of the Concept2. The Free Individual3. The Natural Law of Freedom4. The ‘Truly Human’ Society Part 2. Karl Marx’s Road to Communism 5. The New Social Dialectic 6. The Critique of Politics7. The Critique of Economics8. Communism and the Complete, Unalienated Man Part 3. Critical Resume: Ethics and the Young Marx 9. Ethics: Positive or Normative?10. The Rejection of Moralism, of ‘Rights’ and of Normative Law11. Ethics and the ‘Truly Human’ Society Part 4. Ethics and the Mature Marx 12. The New Edifice: Historical Materialism and the Rejection of ‘Philosophy’13. The Materialist Interpretation of History and Marx’s Critique of Moralities14. Historical Materialism and the Overcoming of Alienation Part 5. Communism and Ethics 15. Ethics and the Communist Party16. Law and Morality in Soviet Society. Conclusions. Ethics and the Foundations of Marxism.

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Kamenka, Eugene