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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay

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Marx's Theology of Economics

Karl Marx wanted people to pay his bills and because he sometimes had to do things to get money like Badger his mom instead of getting a job that held him back from writing social theory. Everything man makes makes him less every bit of work he does puts some of himself in the work so he becomes less as a result. Man is also estranged from what it means to be human which is why he said his entire project is to humanize man and to humanize society and humanize the world but this is just being estranged from itself, says David Frum.

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