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History (n.) is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
History (n.) is a march toward man's self-realization.
History (n.) is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
History (n.) is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving as if it were an individual person its own ends.
History (n.) repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History (n.) is a thing than men make for themselves, but they do not make it just as they please. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
History (n.) men make for themselves, but they do not make it just as they please. They do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
History's (n.) work is to discover the various use of things.
History (n.) is far from having been completed, in fact it has not even begun; what we call history is only the pre-history of humanity. .
History (n.) is made by men themselves, but they do not make it just as they please,
History (n.) is, in all cases, nothing but the history of the exploitation of one part of society by the other.
History (n.) is a succession of forms of ownership, tribal in the first instance, then ‘communal’ in the city-states of Greece and Rome, next feudal, and now capitalist.
Culture (n.) is ideology which serves to blind the worker to the oppression of capitalism. It is not as important as the economic structure.
Being (n.) is nothing but 'actual world', 'objective world' and 'human world' based on the practice of human beings.
Anthropology (n.) is a mode of asking 'what it means to be human' which involves an inquiry into nature, society, history, and science.
Judaism (n.) is not a religion or a race, but rather the embodiment of civil society; a principle that makes alienation possible.
Communism (n.) is a higher social form, whose fundamental principle is the full and free development of every individual.
Communism (n.) is an outcome inherent in capitalism's trajectory, but history is not a goaldirected process steered by communism.
Communism (n.) is not so much a social state otherwise the dialectic would come to an end but rather a conscious principle of movement.
Communism (n.) is not the end of private consumption, but the end to the exploitation of the labour of others.
Communism (n.) is the immanent potential that haunts, and emerges in and through, capitalism.
Alienation (n.) is the idea that our consciousness is just fine but that our reality is perverted. It is in the material world as it is that man is alienated.
Life (n.) is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
Art's (n.) object, like every other product, creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
Truth (n.) is necessarily related to the social situation. It is, in the end, a pragmatic affair.
Truth (n.) is not abstract correspondence between thought and reality but rather the economic, political, societal, and historical fruitfulness of thought in practice.
Truth (n.) is simply the correspondence of human knowledge to its object. 'Practice is the only final test of truth.