Existentialism vs Marxism - What's the difference?
existentialism | marxism |
(philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
* 1965 , Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.
The socialist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; .
The socialist ideology of the followers of Karl Marx; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.
As nouns the difference between existentialism and marxism
is that existentialism is (philosophy|not countable) a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while marxism is the socialist philosophy and political program developed by.existentialism
English
(wikipedia existentialism)Noun
(en noun)- The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
- Sartre's existentialism''' is atheistic, but the '''existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
- Instead of Existentialism', we should speak of ' Existentialisms .
