ABSTRACT
Karl Marx notes approvingly that the demand has been articulated to abolish philosophy because of its ineffectiveness in the resolution of practical problems. Marxian philosophical anthropology, of which only the most fragile outline can be sketched, is a theory of humanity in terms of human activity, which varies as a function of the social context. Three distinctive traits of Marxian philosophy are monism, a categorical scheme, and philosophical anthropology, all of which are general features of nineteenth-century philosophy. Philosophical anthropology is one important tie between Marxian philosophy and the German heritage. The key to the entire analysis/synthesis in Marx’s works is the explanatory power of the commodity-fetish thesis. Marx’s theory can be delineated as an enterprise to comprehend the real possibility of human social development and self-actualization through a theory of human capacities and their consummation through goal-oriented human activities.
