Editing Praxis (process) (section)

==Jean-Paul Sartre==
In the ''[[Critique of Dialectical Reason]]'', [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] posits a view of individual praxis as the basis of human history.<ref name=Soper3>{{cite book |last=Soper |first=Kate|author-link=Kate Soper |date=1986 |title=Humanism and Anti-Humanism |location=London |publisher=Hutchinson |page=69 |isbn=0-09-162-931-4}}</ref> In his view, praxis is an attempt to negate human need.<ref name=Soper1>{{cite book |last=Soper |first=Kate|author-link=Kate Soper |date=1986 |title=Humanism and Anti-Humanism |location=London |publisher=Hutchinson |page=68 |isbn=0-09-162-931-4}}</ref> In a revision of Marxism and his earlier [[existentialism]],<ref name=Kołakowski2>{{cite book
|last=Kołakowski
|first=Leszek
|author-link=Leszek Kołakowski
|year=1978
|title=Main Currents of Marxism, Vol. 3: The Breakdown
|location=Oxford
|publisher=Clarendon Press
|isbn=0-19-824570-X
|page=479
}}</ref> Sartre argues that the fundamental relation of human history is [[scarcity]].<ref name=Anderson1>{{cite book
|last=Anderson
|first=Perry
|author-link=Perry Anderson
|year=1976
|title=Considerations on Western Marxism
|location=Bristol
|publisher=New Left Books
|page=86
}}</ref> Conditions of scarcity generate competition for resources, exploitation of one over another and [[division of labor]], which in its turn creates struggle between [[social classes|classes]]. Each individual experiences the other as a threat to his or her own survival and praxis; it is always a possibility that one's individual freedom limits another's.<ref name=Soper2>{{cite book |last=Soper |first=Kate|author-link=Kate Soper |date=1986 |title=Humanism and Anti-Humanism |location=London |publisher=Hutchinson |pages=68–69 |isbn=0-09-162-931-4}}</ref> Sartre recognizes both natural and man-made constraints on freedom: he calls the non-unified practical activity of humans the "practico-inert".<ref name=Soper3 /> Sartre opposes to individual praxis a "group praxis" that fuses each individual to be accountable to each other in a common purpose.<ref name=Soper4>{{cite book |last=Soper |first=Kate|author-link=Kate Soper |date=1986 |title=Humanism and Anti-Humanism |location=London |publisher=Hutchinson |pages=69–70 |isbn=0-09-162-931-4}}</ref> Sartre sees a mass movement in a successful revolution as the best exemplar of such a fused group.<ref name=Anderson2>{{cite book
|last=Anderson
|first=Perry
|author-link=Perry Anderson
|year=1976
|title=Considerations on Western Marxism
|location=Bristol
|publisher=New Left Books
|page=87
}}</ref>