Help tracking down a Marx quote ...

Submitted by Jschul05 on January 26, 2016

Hi folks,

I'm reading something (Bloch's Principle of Hope, and he references the well-known phrase from Marx, "naturalization of man, humanization of nature."

Where is this from in Marx? I can't find any direct reference to a Marx text using this precise phrasing. Is this something from the 1844 manuscripts?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Karetelnik

8 years 3 months ago

Submitted by Karetelnik on January 26, 2016

Yes, the quote is from the

Yes, the quote is from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.

Marx wrote:

Dieser Kommunismus ist als vollendeter Naturalismus = Humanismus, als vollendeter Humanismus = Naturalismus...

The standard English version of this is:

This communism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism...