ABSTRACT
The convergence between Marxism and phenomenology is necessary, despite Louis Althusser’s strenuous attempts to separate them on behalf of scientific Marxism. In short, Karl Marx insisted that the human mind is historical and social because it is an embodied mind and that the human body is similarly social and historical because it is intelligent. Marx’s critique of classical political economy is a tireless deconstruction of its capital-logical discourse. Weber makes a fatality of technical rationality, thereby identifying its historical role with political domination as such, whereas Marx’s critique of class political economy showed the critical limits of economic rationality. The discourse of Marxist-humanism is predicated upon the suspension of every binarism that derives from the unquestioned separation of humanity and humane existence. Marxist rationalism is more than an epistemology because it is concerned with the human meaning of knowledge, and is therefore always critical with respect to the uses of science.
