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Marx’s first version of historical materialism was a history of the division of labour, but the latter term had a meaning in this period that it would subsequently lose: ‘Division of labour and private property are . . . identical expressions.’

But to forego the telos is not to forego every progress that can take place in its direction

The end of the social relations of capitalism does not mean the end of our passionate servitude. It does not by itself free us from the disorderly violence of desire and the efforts of power. It is perhaps on this precise point that the Spinozist realism of the passions is most useful to the Marxia…

its task would be to overturn capital (but capital as a reified social relation)

a possible history of transcending capitalism – but an open-ended history, not yet written and without any teleological guarantees