SINIFTAN KAÇAN ÇOCUK (Türkçe)

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Şahin’s Critique of Marxism: Individual Freedom, State, and Globalization

In Sınıftan Kaçan Çocuk, Şahin criticizes Marxism for subsuming the individual under the collective entity of the class, thereby neglecting individual autonomy. He argues that Marxist theory views freedom not as something inherent to the present, but as something deferred to a distant future—only attainable in the ideal socialist society once class antagonisms have been abolished.

CRITIQUE OF MARX’S DIALECTICAL METHOD

Şahin argues that Marx’s use of Hegelian dialectics is inconsistent and fails to produce a coherent materialist methodology. He questions whether Marx truly developed an original method, suggesting instead that Marx borrowed from Hegel’s idealist system without adequately transforming it for materialist purposes. Şahin asserts:

“Does Marx really have a method? If we agree that Marx has a method, what is it? Or is this method dialectical materialism?” (Sınıftan Kaçan Çocuk, p. 11).

In this passage, Şahin challenges the very foundation of Marx’s method, posing a critical question about whether Marx successfully developed a materialist methodology that can account for the complexities of history and society. For Şahin, the reliance on dialectical materialism, as articulated by Marx, is problematic because it still carries traces of Hegel’s idealism, which Marx claimed to have discarded.