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Emancipationgenerally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procureeconomic and social rights,political rightsorequality,often for a specificallydisenfranchisedgroup, or more generally, in discussion of many matters.
Among others,Karl Marxdiscussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question",although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the termhuman emancipation.Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state,equality before the law,regardless of religion, property, or other 'private' characteristics of individual people. "[1]
"Political emancipation" as aphraseis less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States theCivil Rights movementculminated in theCivil Rights Act of 1964,theVoting Rights Act of 1965,and theFair Housing Act of 1968,which can collectively be seen as further realization of events such as theEmancipation Proclamationand the abolition of slavery a century earlier. In the current and formerBritish West Indiesislands the holidayEmancipation Dayis celebrated to mark the end of theAtlantic slave trade.[2]
Etymology
editThe termemancipationderives from the Latinēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio(the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems fromēmanucapere(capture from someone else's hand).
See also
edit- Abolitionism
- Catholic emancipation
- Dunmore's Proclamation
- Ecclesiastical emancipation
- Emancipation of minors
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation reform of 1861in Russia
- Emancipist
- Emancipation Day
- Jewish emancipation
- Liberation (disambiguation)
- Manumission
- Political freedom
- Revolution (disambiguation)
- Self-determination
- Tanzimat
- Women's suffrage
- Youth rights
References
edit- ^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
edit- Todd McGowan:Emancipation after Hegel. Achieving a Contradictory Revolution,New York: Columbia UP, 2021 (Paperback)
- Wolfdietrich Schmied-KowarzikKarl Marx as a Philosopher of Human Emancipation,translated by Dylan C. Stewart
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