A 19th-century German economist, sociologist, and philosopher best known for his theory of class struggle and its profound impact on subsequent politics across the globe. While existentialism has close affinities with Marxism, de Beauvoir sees Marxism as unable to commit to considering people free, because it considers revolution a necessary historical goal and action valuable only insofar as it advances the political cause.
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We think that the meaning of the situation does not impose itself on the consciousness of a passive subject, that it surges up only by the disclosure which a free subject effects in his project.
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Marx Quotes in The Ethics of Ambiguity
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We think that the meaning of the situation does not impose itself on the consciousness of a passive subject, that it surges up only by the disclosure which a free subject effects in his project.
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