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PoliEdPod 1: Marx and Political Economy (Introduction to Class Unity #1)

Class Unity

CHAPTER

The Motor Production of Material Life Conditions

Marx's point about this is just to say that you cannot really imagine these, I guess he calls it social, political, and intellectual life without considering it as being conditioned by material conditions. It's the collective labor that we are all a part of and participate in,. Not just manually, not just when we go to work, but also intellectually, and how we think about ourselves in relation to the world. The idea of freedom is what is sort of the motivating force of modern change in progress.

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