Marx Women Emancipation

Although Marx possesses no monograph on feminine issues, his discussion on women emancipation can be easily found in his different works. If one penetrates deeper into Marx's works, he will by all means discover that the significance of Marx's thought of women emancipation does not consist in providing us with a certain political creed or strategy, but in offering women emancipation the general objective and guidance. The importance of his thought of women emancipation is manifested not only on the political level, but also on the philosophical level, which exerts the immutable influence. Virtually, the probe into Marx's thought of women emancipation is no other than the study on the contemporary significance of Marxism.On the basis of the historical materialism, this dissertation focuses its attention upon the Marx's thought of women emancipation from the philosophical perspective. Regarding the principle of sensibility as both its own point of departure and end-result, this dissertation aims at disclosing the necessity, conditions and significance of women emancipation within the framework of dialectical relationship between the alienated and the human world.Supported by the two sets of production theories as well as the theory of division of labor initiated by Marx, this dissertation sheds light on the foundation of historical materialism from which the feminine issues arise. The production of the means of existence is closely related to that of the human beings themselves and their influence upon human existence consistently vary with the passage of time. With the alteration of the manner of production, the mode of exchange and the dominant social relationship accompanied by the emergence of private property and state, the production of the human beings themselves gave place to that of the means of existence and thus retreated to a secondary position. The original natural division of labor for human beings converted to a true one, which gave rise to the inequality of women. Posterior to the Industrial Revolution, it was capital domination that made the feminine issues a great concern in the modern society.Starting with the illustration of the double effect of capital domination, Marx reveals the prerequisites and insufficiencies of women emancipation. On the one hand, the development of capitalism has laid a solid foundation for women's achievement of the equal economic, political and legal rights and also made possible the women political emancipation; on the other hand, both the principle of capital and the principle of logos separated the human sensuous life from its original whole, which has not only resulted in the materialization and objectivation of human beings but also led to the suppression of logos over sensibility from both social and individual perspectives. That just marks the fate of contemporary people and, a fortiori, the fate of contemporary women. In the setting of capital domination, it is of little possibility for women emancipation to make a remarkable progress.It is only by social revolution, abolition of capitalism and reestablishment of the principle of sensibility that women emancipation can be achieved in the real sense. With the overall and unrestricted development of human beings as its content, the principle of...