Hegel and Marx on needs

the making of a monster

Ian Fraser

pp. 146-166

in: Tony Burns, Ian Fraser (eds), The Hegel-Marx connection, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

For Hegel and Marx, the simple satisfaction of needs leads to the creation of a society that becomes an animated, monstrous beast over individuals. Both focus on this development through the contradictory movement of human beings in the shaping and making of their world. Hegel concentrates on the subject as Will manifesting itself in society through the satisfaction of its needs. Marx's concern is with workers' antagonistic satisfaction of their needs within capital.

Cited authors

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Marx Karl