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

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The God of Marxism

In Marxist theology man is his own creator it's not quite the man though that you think. Man recognizes himself as an incomplete being who is in the process of becoming his completed self just like for Hegel God is an incomplete deity and he will be when he actualizes his full true nature. At the end of history looking back saying did you stand with this process or did you not is your ultimate judge and you were either on the right side of the process of moving history or you were on the wrong side. I realized a number about a year and a half ago maybe a year ago the way I realized it was I figured out we talk about God and say Christian theology is a moral law g

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