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'''Humanism''' is a [[Philosophy|philosophical]] stance centered around humans.

== Bourgeois humanism ==
The [[Enlightenment]] replaced [[religion]] with [[Rationalism|rationalist]] [[idealism]] or [[mechanical materialism]]. This [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] humanism was the concept of abstract individual, devoid of material [[Relations of production|relations]]. Despite supposedly being centered around humans, it treated women and [[Colonialism|colonized]] people as subhuman.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=Marx’s Critique of Enlightenment Humanism: A Revolutionary Ecological Perspective|date=2023-01-01|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2023/01/01/marxs-critique-of-enlightenment-humanism-a-revolutionary-ecological-perspective/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330211934/https://monthlyreview.org/2023/01/01/marxs-critique-of-enlightenment-humanism-a-revolutionary-ecological-perspective/|archive-date=2023-03-30}}</ref>

== Proletarian humanism ==
[[Karl Marx|Marx]] wrote that, "[[Communist movement|Communism]] is humanism mediated with itself through the supersession of [[private property]]. Only when we have superseded this mediation...will positive humanism, positively originating in itself, come into being."<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Karl Marx]]|year=1844|title=Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts|chapter=Critique of Hegel's Dialectic and General Philosophy|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm|quote=communism is humanism mediated with itself through the supersession of private property. Only when we have superseded this mediation – which is, however, a necessary precondition – will positive humanism, positively originating in itself, come into being.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/}}</ref>

== References ==
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