Karl Marx,
Theses on Feuerbach
(2007)
“ VI Feuerbach resolves the religious essence into the human essence. But the human essence is not an abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality, it is the ensemble of social conditions. ”
Karl Marx,
Theses on Feuerbach
(2007)
“ II The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but a practical question. Man must prove in practice the truth - i.e. the reality and power, the worldliness - of his thinking. Isolated from practice, the controversy over the reality or unreality of thinking is a purely scholastic question. ”
Karl Marx,
Theses on Feuerbach
(2007)
“ IX The highest point reached by intuitive materialism - that is, materialism which does not comprehend the activity of the senses as practical activity - is the point-of-view of single individuals in “bourgeois society”.X The standpoint of the old materialism is “bourgeois” society; the standpoint of the new is human society, or socialised mankind. ”
