{"id":1415,"date":"2019-11-05T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2019-11-05T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:05:12","slug":"the-individual-unbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/the-individual-unbound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Individual Unbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/woman-march-DC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/woman-march-DC.jpg 720w, https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/woman-march-DC-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frederich Engels,<\/p>\n<p>History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant \u2014 the historical event. This may again itself be viewed as the product of a power which works as a whole unconsciously and without volition. For what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. \u2026 But from the fact that the wills of individuals \u2014 each of whom desires what he is impelled to by his physical constitution and external, in the last resort economic, circumstances\u2014 do not attain what they want, but are merged into an aggregate mean, a common resultant, it must not be concluded that they are equal to zero. On the contrary, each contributes to the resultant and is to this extent included in it.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme<\/p>\n<p>In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life&#8217;s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly &#8212; only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"56bgr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"56bgr-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"56bgr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"56bgr-0-0\">Zhang Yibing, Back to Marx. Changes of Philosophical Discourse in the Context of Economics<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"56bgr-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"4mrqi-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"6c6hc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6c6hc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6c6hc-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"tmpe-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"tmpe-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"tmpe-0-0\">More importantly, another critical level of Marx\u2019s explanation here of historical subsistence is that men in every age create their own history under certain historical conditions.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"ejbj9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ejbj9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ejbj9-0-0\">. . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"9l5qo-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9l5qo-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9l5qo-0-0\">production itself is creation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"6bb80-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6bb80-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6bb80-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"3cddn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3cddn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3cddn-0-0\">Thus, as Marx uses the changes in tools and modes of production to explain the advance of history, he is also explaining the creative essence of mankind\u2019s historical subsistence.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"9o8vf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9o8vf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9o8vf-0-0\">. . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"7u8up-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7u8up-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7u8up-0-0\">Marx writes \u201cAt each stage [of history] there is found a material result: a sum of productive forces, a historically created relation of individuals to nature and to one another, which is handed down to each generation from its predecessor; a mass of productive forces, capital funds and conditions, which, on the one hand, is indeed modified by the new generation, but also on the other prescribes for it its conditions of life and gives it a definite development, a special character.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"4elpj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4elpj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4elpj-0-0\">. . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"29td5\" data-offset-key=\"4mrqi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4mrqi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4mrqi-0-0\">It is evident that the historical subsistence of which Marx speaks is not simple linear continuous time, but rather a historical time that sublates the past into itself, while simultaneously creating the present and moving towards the future.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederich Engels, History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,282,268,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism","category-division-of-labor","category-philosophy","category-political-theory"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toaredplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}