Research On Marx’s View Of Freedom

The history of mankind is a history of freedom. That the wheel of history rolls on makesmankind closer to freedom gradually. Freedom is the result of history and the production ofhuman practice.To explore what is freedom is the bright spot in the history of philosophy, suchspeculations make mankind wise. But how to achieve freedom is more encouraging. Marxended the speculative metaphysics and opened the course of practice. To Marx, freedom is notan academic problem but a practical question of how to obtain and how to realize. So Marxput it into practice, which differs from other philosophers.This paper argues that Marx’s understanding of freedom is a dynamic and historicalprocess. Freedom in different social forms is not the same, to obtain freedom means thatmankind is such an existence that he is a conscious being, so he is free to engage in thematerial production and all other activities. In this process, mankind changed the nature andcreated a society, also he developed himself. The degree of freedom also began to deepen.Undoubtedly, we now enjoy a degree of freedom which ancient ancestors’ can not match with.However while we are enjoying a level of freedom, we are also suffering another level ofoppression and alienation. We don’t want to go back to the primitive society; we also feel thatalienation is intolerable; we yearn for freedom of the communist society. We have to admitthat we cannot treat work as a pure enjoyment; we have to use it as means of life. We can stillfind this realistic situation in “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of1844” which waswritten by Marx more than one hundred years ago. The study of it still has great importance.From it, we will have more confidence in the vision of a better future. Since people can createa world which is not like it in hundreds of millions of years ago, so could he also change theworld with which he is not satisfied better.Following this logic, this paper is divided into fourparts, the first part expounds the concrete connotation of Marx’s freedom theory, also putforward at the same time that his freedom theory in the “Economic and PhilosophicalManuscripts of1844” has emerged; the second part points out the ideological source of hisview of freedom in “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of1844”; the third partspecifies Marx’s view of freedom in “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of1844” fromthe angle of the difference between objectification of labor and estranged labor andcommunism as the transcendence of private property.