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

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The Mystification of Marx's Theology

Karl Marx was a German meaning entranced with the idea of a total systematic philosophy that he would be able to explain the entire world with. He also liked Hegel's dialectic for this process of realizing one's incompleteness and capacity to recognize oneself as a creative subject who might complete himself and everything around him but he also like I said thought it was too mystical. We really have to focus on the idea that Marx hides his whole religious ball in the demystification of his theology quoting from the preface to the second edition of capital volume one, "The Idea is an out there" we're gonna keep the comprehensive and conscious form of the dialectic as a means to transform

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