Marx and the Civic Humanist Tradition

  • Norman Levine
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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that Marx’s political theory was an expression of the Left Wing of the Enlightenment.

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Civil Society Private Property Distributive Justice French Revolution Social Revolution 
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