Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Who distinguished the Young Marx from the Old Marx?
AAlthusser ✓ Correct
BLenin
CMiliband
DLuxemburg
Correct answer: (A) Althusser — The thinker who distinguished the young Marx from the old or mature Marx is Louis Althusser.
Explanation
★The thinker who distinguished the young Marx from the old or mature Marx is Louis Althusser.
★In For Marx he proposed an epistemological break separating the early, humanist and Hegelian Marx from the later, scientific Marx.
★The young Marx wrote on alienation, while the mature Marx of Das Kapital turned to the scientific analysis of capital.
★Althusser warned against reading Marx through the young, Hegelian writings alone.
★Lenin, Miliband and Luxemburg worked within Marxism but did not draw this young versus mature distinction.
★So Althusser is the correct answer.
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