I recall KARL MARKS remarks he maybe right?

Question

Materials controlls our soul .

When physical environment changes , our view of life changes.

How correct !!!

we can say " no ,we are not so heavily influenced by material environment . our soul is pure "

But again as karl marks said " we cant escape the gravity simply denying the law of gravity."

so our free will is not so free at all.

our so called personality is heavily dependent on our inherited genes and also material environment.

whats your view on his remarks?

if you are buddists how can we break through this already prepared , dependent destiny of our being ?

Answer 1

His statement "When physical environment changes, our view of life changes" is basically accurate. But, since Marx was a political extremist the direction he took with it, and the conclusions he made were conjecture and largely false, or overly optimisitic.

Answer 2

First off you are selectively quoting Marx out of context. I also think you are incorrectly interpreting the second quote about the law of gravity.

Marx was attempting to explain to a proletariat reader that he cannot escape the reality that the bourgeoisie controls everything by simply denying it - it is a cold, hard fact. It had nothing to do with free will, in fact, Marx holds the same exact claims as Hegel does in regards to free will - it doesn't matter.

Free will is useless because in the end all that matters is alienation coming to an end and the subjective fusing with the objective in what they consider the end of the dialectic.

And by the way, Marx was not a political extremist, he was simply a Young Hegelian economic philosopher, he cared nothing for politics.

Also, the murder of millions of people in the 20th century had nothing to do with Karl Marx - that was a revolutionary taking his quotes out of context much like the asker of this question did. Also like Hitler did with Nietszche, get your facts straight mr. conservative.

Answer 3

Also remember that Marx' ideas culminated in the murder of over 120 million people in the 20th century. Geez he had some great ideas.
Free will is real. Sometimes choices can remove that free will from you. The person who starts drinking alcohol for example can become a drunk and lose that free will to booze. Why start in the first place. Same with becoming a liberal.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

With almost every philosophy, there are shreds of truth you can pick and choose. With almost every leader, there is good. One shouldn't take a philosophy like communism that has proven over time not to work and say it is a great philosophy because these few things in it are true.

Remember, Hitler gave the German people confidence. Mussolini made the trains run on time. Stalin led the Soviets to victory over the Nazis. I still wouldn't want to live in a country run by either of those men just because they accomplished those things.

Just as I won't follow those men, I won't follow the philosophy of a man who espouses Communism, which hasn't shown any signs of success yet. Again, just because there are some truths in what Marx wrote, doesn't mean everything is true. Charles Manson told his girls just enough truths to get them to follow him. He was eventually able to turn them into killers.

Answer 6

Buddhist's believe in "accepting what is"
and reacting to it positively. No need to
wine, ask why me or any of that crap.
No need to yell, " Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in a cage". We just
accept that all are born to experience
a certain amount of suffering. We enjoy
the goodtimes and allow yourself to
grow and learn as a result of the bad
ones. That is all.

Answer 7

If your going to quote someone, you should spell his/her name correctly.

Its Karl MARX.

Answer 8

Here's a door: When?

Good luck!

Answer 9

as popeye said it. i yam what i yam