Contrast and Comparison Paragraph. Marta Pasiuk

Personalism vs. Marxism

Historians of philosophy may find the subject of Marxism and Personalism very interesting for their work. Historically, Marxism as a philosophical school was based before Personalism and had a big influence on it. One of their main ideas is the idea about "involved" existence. But Marxism ignores the inner life of a man, his individual and collective destiny. While Personalism underscores the centrality of the inner life of a man as the primary locus of investigation for philosophical, theological, and humanistic studies. Another feature of Marxism is that the subject is perceived as the subject of industrial activity. Personalistic concept mainly has an attempt to link the concept of labor with self-manifestation of the personality, fulfilling themselves as the subject of moral, aesthetic, religious, and spiritual activities. Both Personalism and Marxism consider the revolution necessary, but they talk about different revolutions. For Marxism the revolution would concern only social structures. And for Personalism the revolution is a personal revolution “in the heart of revolutionaries”. These two schools of the twentieth century have much in common and a lot of dissimilar and are an interesting topic for research.