In the eleventh and last of the Theses on Feuerbach, we read: ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.’ [...]

A series of aphorisms that here outline a critical argument, there advance a lapidary proposition and what is, at times, almost a slogan.

lapse back into the ambit of philosophy, since there is no third way between philosophy and revolution

as early as the Manifesto and, a fortiori, in Capital, he was to note the power with which capitalism ‘changes the world

[...] (1) that the conditions of existence of the proletarians (what we would today term social exclusion) are in contradiction with all the principles of that society; (2) that they themselves live by other values than those of private property, profit, patriotism and bourgeois individualism; and (3) that their growing opposition to the State and the dominant class is a necessary effect of the modern social structure, but one which will soon prove lethal for that structure.

They must explain this paradox, which also leads them to point up the imbroglio that arises from it

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.