The Significance of Marx’s Workday System from “Changing the World” to “Changing Oneself”

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10.2991/icesem-18.2018.238How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Marx; Workday system; Social time; Life scale; Development space

Abstract

Though philosophical ideas of Marxism advocates “interpreting the world” on the basis of practice, it attaches more importance to “changing the world” through practice. The practical materialism developed by Marx provides a great tool for humans, particularly the working class, to learn and change the world. In particular, the survival and development of the working class have provided multiple conditional paths to emancipation. Among them, time condition is a choice. The workday system proposed by Marx and Engels suggests that the 8-hour workday system is a condition for human orientation of modern civilization. From “changing the world” to “changing oneself,” this paper expounds the significance of Marx and Engels’s workday system from the perspective of reasonable distribution of humans’ social time as well as humans’ life scale and development space. Solid evidence is found to verify the idea that Marx and Engels’s proposition of the workday system marks a huge step forward in the history of humans’ changing the world and themselves.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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