Liberation of Man: A Study of Marx, Freud and Osho

Freud’s independent man has emancipated himself from the dependence of mother; Marx independent man emancipated himself from the dependence of nature.(Fromm)The free man to Marx is the active,related and productive man. Only the free and productive man , united to his fallow men, can give they right answer to man existence., Marx concept of man was a dynamic one. Human passion is , he says, “the essential power of man striving energetically for its object.”

Marx says , “The eye has become human eye when its object has become human, social object, created by man and destined for him. The senses have therefore become directly theoreticians in practice. They relate themselves to the things for the sake of the things, but the thing itself is an objective human relation to itself and to man vice verse. Need and enjoyment have thus lost their egoistic character, and nature has lost its mere utility by the fact that its utilization has become human utilization. (In practice I can only relate myself in a human way to a thing when the thing is related in a human way to man. Let us assume man to be man , and his relation to the world to be a human one. Then love can only be exchanged for love, trust for trust, etc. you wish to enjoy art you must be artistically cultivated person; if you wish to influence other people you must be a person who really has a stimulating and encouraging effect upon others. Every one of your relations to man and to nature must be a specific expression, corresponding to the object of your will, of your real individual life. If you love without evoking love in return, i.e., if you are not able, by the manifestation of yourself as loving person, to make yourself a beloved person, then your love is impotent and a misfortune.”

Fromm says that then the fully developed, and thus a healthy man, is the productive man, the man who is genuinely interested in the world, responding to it; he is the rich man, Marx paints the picture of man under the system of capitalism. “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people”

The purpose of this entire debate is to understand some misconceptions in their contexts. The intelligentsia who is running away from its responsibilities must realize the fact that with out changing the context of the individual it is then to live in fools’ paradise to think that every thing will be changed if man realizes his Buddha nature. The study of Marx and Freud helps us to understand that man is a social bound creature, it is not just easy for him/her to unshackles the chains of either his /her sub-conscious (the repressed desires, manifested in some interesting, horrible and funny ways.) or of his surroundings.

Bibliography:

1- The Nature of Man according to Hinduism, by Swami Brahmeshananda.

2- MADNESS & LIBERATION– THE MAGIC OF FAIRY TALES & THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN ADULTHOOD, by Brent Dean Robbins.

3- “Enjoy the poetry of Rumi-But Don’t Stop There” by Osho

4- A New Unfragmented Man by Osho6.

5- ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS by Marx.

6- Beyond the Chains of Illusions (My encounter with Marx & Freud) by Erich Fromm