On the Jewish Question of 1843, which contains the famous exegesis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
the reification of the bourgeois world in the forms of the generalized ‘commodification’ of social activities
Marx never invoked an implicitly moral notion, such as that of false consciousness (as later employed by Lukács and others), just as he never spoke of proletarian ideology or class consciousness
Since the Greeks (who made it the privilege of ‘citizens’, i.e. of the masters), praxis had been that ‘free’ action in which man realizes and transforms only himself, seeking to attain his own perfection.
They must explain this paradox, which also leads them to point up the imbroglio that arises from it
