Stan Yoder

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according to Engels, has created ‘for the first time … the possibility of securing for every member of society … an existence not only … sufficient from a material point of view, but also … warranting the … development and exercise of his physical and mental faculties’9. With this, freedom becomes possible, i.e. the emancipation from the flesh. ‘At this point … man finally cuts himself off from the animal world, leaves … animal existence behind him and enters conditions which are really human.’ Man is in fetters exactly in so far as he is dominated by economics; when ‘the domination of the ...more
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton Classics)
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