Activity

Labour as we know it is an alienated form of what he calls "praxis"--an ancient Greek word meaning the kind of free, self-realising activity by which we transform the world.

Marx writes wonderfully in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of the protean, shape-changing, alchemical nature of money

"evolutionist" view of the future which regards it simply as more of the present. It is simply the present writ large

Some conservatives are utopianists, but their utopia lies in the past rather than the future. In their view, history has been one long, doleful decline from a golden age