
Preparing my teaching on Marx’s Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, a word caught my eye.
Marx has just finished explaining the first condition of revolution, which is that one part of society – one class or estate – must establish itself as the “general representative” of the whole of society. Only then can the liberation of this class be the liberation of the whole of society. For this revolutionary class, “its claims and rights are truly the claims and rights of society itself”.
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