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Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Book by Karl Marx · 7 quotes · Men, Consciousness, Objects

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“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.”

“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”