HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Communist Manifesto, False Consciousness, Spv Gmbh
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Recap: labor/activity is essential human quality (cid:498)assume man to be man and his relationship to the world to be a human one: then expression(cid:499) (cid:4666)(cid:883)4(cid:883)(cid:4667) you can exchange love only for love, trust for trust, etc. If you want to enjoy art you must be an artistically cultivated person; if you want to exercise influence over other people, you must be a person with a stimulating and encouraging effect on other people. Everyone of your relations to man and to nature must be a specific: what is marx saying, under capitalism all of this change, human activity has two dimensions, materiality. Need nature to act: we cannot act unless through nature, even if we are doing abstract work like philosophy because we need food to nourish our brains to be able to think critically. Action manifests itself in and through matter: free conscious activity. This gives us some freedom and control over our actions.
