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Theses on Feuerbach
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Materialism (n.) used to stand on the ground of bourgeois society and see only single individuals; the new kind stands on human society, socialised mankind.
Materialism (n.) has so far conceived reality only as an object of contemplation, never as sensuous human activity — so the active side was left to idealism, which developed it only abstractly.
Human essence (n.) is not an abstraction lodged inside each single individual; in its reality it is the ensemble of social conditions.
Philosophy (n.) has only interpreted the world in different ways; what matters is to change it.
Circumstance (n.) make men — but men change circumstances, and whoever forgets this splits society in two, with himself placed above it as the shaper.
The Critique of religion (n.) finishes by reducing heaven to earth — and only then does the real task begin.
Praxis (n.) is the point where changing the circumstances and changing oneself turn out to be the same act.
Religion (n.) is the earthly world detaching a second self and fixing it in the clouds — explicable only by the contradictions in the ground it left.
Truth (n.) is not a question of theory but a practical question: man must prove in practice the reality and power, the worldliness, of his thinking.
An Educator (n.) is the figure the doctrine of upbringing forgets, and he too must be educated.
The Holy Family (n.) has the earthly family as its secret, and once that is discovered the earthly family must be criticised in theory and overthrown in practice.