Emancipation
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Emancipation has many meanings; in political terms, it often means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability that violates basic human rights, such as
Among others, Karl Marx used the term political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term human emancipation. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing assimilationist policies under the guise of the "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state,(but never emancipation from the state) equality before the law, regardless of race, identity, religion, property, or other characteristics of individual people."[1]
"Political emancipation" as a
Etymology
The term emancipation derives from the Latin ēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio (the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems from ē manu capere (capture from someone else's hand).
See also
- Abolitionism
- Catholic emancipation
- Dunmore's Proclamation
- Ecclesiastical emancipation
- Emancipation of minors
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia
- Emancipist
- Emancipation Day
- Jewish emancipation
- Liberation (disambiguation)
- Manumission
- Political freedom
- Revolution (disambiguation)
- Self-determination
- Tanzimat
- Women's suffrage
- Youth rights
References
- ^ In other words, as stipulated in the Constitution of the United States of America. Notes on Political and Human Emancipation, Mark Rupert, Syracuse University.
- ^ "Emancipation Movements | Slavery and Remembrance".
Further reading
- Todd McGowan: Emancipation after Hegel. Achieving a Contradictory Revolution, New York: Columbia UP, 2021 (Paperback)
- Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik Karl Marx as a Philosopher of Human Emancipation, translated by Dylan C. Stewart
External links
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .