the materialist imperative of valorizing the ‘productive forces’ in the face of bourgeois hegemony and its intellectual forms
But a more troubling amphibology still possibly ‘inhabits’ our attempts to interpret the intellectual operation whereby Marx deconstructs and redefines what is to be understood by ‘human essence’
[...] in the case of the human species, which was thereby distinguished from every other species, individuals possess another essential attribute, consisting in their consciousness of their relationship to the common kind. Human beings are not only defined by membership of the human race but …