Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Karl Marx
Red Menace
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The Power of Conscious Thoughts
The ability to become conscious of our own life activity is what makes us different from all other animals on earth. Animals produce things like beaver dams and ant colonies but they produce them only in pursuit of the immediate needs of themselves in their offspring humans mark says produce universally we produce even when we are free from immediate physical need. We duplicate ourselves in our consciousness and also actively out in reality and we see ourselves in a world that we have created. When we are alienated from the products of our productive activity we are separated from our own nature as freely and spontaneously creative creatures say marks.
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