1. Overview of Marx's Philosophical Theories
... amounts to a life purpose. The difference between humans and animals is unlike animals, humans have a consciousness and a will. They have a conscious life activity, and in this activity, humans create and express for their own purpose. But in the modern system of private ownership and the division of labor, the worker is estranged from this essential source of identity and life purpose ... . Marx was not the first philosopher that suggested socialism but he did differ from other philosophers by moving away from the unrealistic expectations of a utopian civilization and the desire and aim...
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