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the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.

the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful

People have always worked to produce useful things. But under capitalism, labor becomes the basis of all social relationships. Marx tried to describe this novelty with his distinction between abstract and concrete labor. In every kind of society, people perform concrete labor — for example, turning…

What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles