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Lecture #2 Marxist Philosophy

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Man Produces in the Truest Way

Each man is aware of a human species as an arsenal of potentialities, which he is an individual may at any moment actualize. The potentialities are not merely his; they're the potentialities of the whole species. Man acts aware of his action, yet aware of the fact that there were a lot of other possible actions open to him. When he gives his life as a whole, he's doing it as one expression of species life. This freedom, which man has of choosing, is very different from the lives of animals. In such free production, says Marx, Marx, men affirm themselves. They say yes to themselves. They confirm themselves. They actualize themselves. Not you

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