Praxis?
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I've been trying to get my head around what Marx actually meant by Praxis and am just getting myself more and more confused. Can anyone help?
Isn't Praxis simply the German word for practice? So Marx would simply have meant what we mean by practice. Giving it some other meaning seems to go back to Gramsci, the leader of the Italian Communist Party in the 1920s and 30s, or at least to those who have interpreted him. In a footnote to an article he wrote on Gramsci in 2007 Chris Harman (SWP) pointed out:
Quote:In this and other passages Gramsci used the Italian word ‘prassi’, which is translated in English‑Italian dictionaries as ‘practice’. Some people translate it as ‘praxis’, believing that gives it some deeper, almost mystical meaning. In fact, in Germany every medical doctor has a ‘praxis’.
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