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

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The Purpose of Being a Man

The social contract emancipates us from that which is restrictive of us. We are made free by becoming part of the collective and if this sounds like a pile of BS contradiction it's because it is it actually is. The big concept that we're going to pay attention to today is what does it mean to be a man. And then the third is how do we demystify reality because the mystifications he brought to the picture from Fowerbach become central to the way Marx reconseives of these things.

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