Arendt: Marx and totalitarianism

Authors

  • José João Neves Barbosa Vicente

Keywords:

Action. Communism. Philosophy. Nazism. Politics.

Abstract

After the publication of The origins of the totalitarianism in 1951, Arendt admits that the book lacks of an analysis on the bolshevism. From there, she begins a research on the Marxism taking as focus the totalitarianism. Some results of this research appeared in some writings of the author. The objective of this article is to verify if existed in these texts, some accusation of Arendt’s point Marx as being responsible for the appearance of the totalitarian regime, either in its form Nazi or Communist.

Published

2015-07-01

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Section

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