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Paradise on EarthA Christian Utopia
byDr Alessandro Scafi,The Warburg Institute,
Univeristy of London and the University of Bologna
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Utopia in 19th Century ThoughtUtopian images in
Marx and Engels The German Ideology
by Professor Terrell Carver,University of Bristol
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Utopian Imagesin Marx and EngelssThe German
Ideology
  • Terrell Carver
  • Professor of Political Theory
  • Department of Politics
  • University of Bristol
  • t.carver_at_bristol.ac.uk

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Current revisions
  • Marx and Engelss relation to the utopians of
    1845-46
  • Understanding of the text and its presentation
    elements of debate
  • Critique of the interpretive tradition and
    editorial process from 1923 to date
  • Critical assessment of Marx and Engels as
    utopians

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Relationship to utopians
  • Read retrospectively through Engelss 1880
    Socialism Utopian and Scientific
  • Sharp binary and harsh judgements of commentators
    recently questioned
  • More nuanced position in 1845-46
  • Makes The Communist Manifesto, Part IV (1848),
    rather more exciting

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Take-away points
  • Interpretive traditions are often retrospective
    and anachronistic
  • Changing the interpretive lens makes familiar
    texts say things differently
  • Texts do not say one thing even at the time
    of writing or publication
  • The understanding of politics, and what counts as
    a (legal or acceptable) political idiom, alters
    with structural and cultural change
  • Beware timeless pastiche in intellectual
    history!

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Hunting, fishing, criticising
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German text 2004
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German apparat
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Japanese edn (1974)
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  • Therefore as soon as the division of labour IS
    starts to develop, each
    exclusiveman has a particular,
    area of activity that constrains him,
    that he cannot get out of he is a hunter,
    fisherman or or critical
    criticherdsman must
    remainas such unless he wants to lose HIS the

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  • means to live whereas in communist society,
    where each man does not have an exclusive area
    of activity, RATHER but can rather develop
    himself in any branchES he likes, society
    MERELY regulates the general production thus
    makes it possible for me to do one thing today
    and another

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  • to
    hunt,tomorrow, in the morning TO BE A
    SHOEMAKER AT MIDDAY IN THE AFTERNOON A to
    fish, to herd
    livestock,GARDNER, in the evening TO BE A
    PLAYWRIGHT,and to criticise after dinner,
    just as
    I have

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  • without ever becoming hunter,a
    mind, or
    critic.fisherman or herdsman.

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  • another tomorrow, in the morning to hunt, in
    the afternoon to fish, in the evening to herd
    livestock and to criticise after dinner, just
    as I have a mind, without ever becoming
    hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.

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Commentators reactions to this passage over the
years
  • 1. Sharp criticism
  • 2. Sympathetic reconciliation
  • 3. Sympathetic omission
  • 4. Puzzlement

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Marx and Engels as utopians critical assessment
  • Hi-tech, high productivity
  • Anti-money
  • Anti-consumption
  • Pro-leisure time
  • Compatible with feminism, anti-colonialism,
    ecologism
  • How much high tech do we need?
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