Early-Marx humanism attracted both Lukács-Korsch Marxists and Tillich’s religious socialists

Evidence

But there was also an echo of another viewpoint, supported by religious socialists like Paul Tillich, who emphasized the necessity of radical socialist change for human existence to be fulfilled. They referred to an early Marx whose purpose in criticizing capitalist society was to reflect on the true essence of humanity which had been concealed by the pre-eminence of economic thinking. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216 (#expands, via linked claim)

Fromm’s reference to early Marx corresponded to the view held by Lukács and Korsch that the decisive element of the Marxist method consisted of tracing all the phenomena of economics and sociology back to social relations between human beings, in order to unmask their fetishistic objectification and conceive of them as being the acts of human beings themselves, which had somehow escaped from human control. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religious socialists like Tillich read Marx’s critique as reflection on human essence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 216; Lukacs and Korsch traced economic phenomena back to human social relations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 216

Broader Connections

• Religious socialists like Tillich read Marx’s critique as reflection on human essence. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216
• Lukacs and Korsch traced economic phenomena back to human social relations. #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216