Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay
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Marx's Dialectical Materialism
Karl Marx's project is to break the divine out of the mundane. His goal is to take this image where you have the absolute idea splitting into a theoretical and practical idea that gives rise to the spirit. He stands it on its head so we go from Hegel's to Marx's idea or God is out man is his own father, son remains the state man creates the state the state gives risen to the society which is like the holy spirit but what we have over here instead of absolute man is what Marx called social man or socialist man That's the divine character here true awakened fully realized socialist man is the god of the Marxist religion he arrives at the end of history man who is taking
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