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

10 years 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...