Marx positive or negative

 On a good note, Karl Marx was optimistic.  On another note, Marx seemed to be, in Terry Eagleton’s eyes, somewhat of a humanist.  According to Eagleton “If history has been so bloody, it is not because most human (sic) beings are wicked. It is because of the material pressures to which they have been submitted” In religious traditions humxn nature is sinful (Christianity) for example, or self-seeking (Buddhism) as another example. Marx seems to think humxns are not derelict in any way but that the material world drives them to such woes as class designation, perhaps the faultiest thinking Marx, and Eagleton, could think of from among humxn things humxns were pushed into, after all. Unfortunately, this does not leave responsibility squarely on anyone’s shoulders. Instead, it is a kind of the devil made me do it situation. The material forces that drive humxns into capitalism and class designations are what makes a commodity of work and the commoditization of persons.  The question is: should humxns be let off the hook here? Isn’t history littered enough with brutality, murder, rape, slavery, imprisonments, and other heinous human thoughts, creations, and behaviors? Marx can label class warfare as positive and revolution as the highest ideal, but does he see only bad in the past and hope for the future, something Eagleton seems to cling to very much.  The past, though, was someone’s future. Marx is not so Pollyannaish, is he, that all bets are off as to the future of revolution? Would not revolution be the result of material pressures? Are they then a necessary evil? This is where Marx is missing data because humxns are indeed driven by sin or greed and grasping at a reality of this world. Who then could teach us to be not of this world?

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