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1938 translation of Marx’s original — MECW translation of Engels’ 1888 version

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Theses On Feuerbach

 

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Written: by Marx in the Spring of 1845, but slightly edited by Engels;
First Published: in German as an appendix to German edition of Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy in 1888;
Source: Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Progress Publishers 1946.

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The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice.

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Feuerbach, who does not enter upon a criticism of this real essence, is hence obliged:

1. To abstract from the historical process and to define the religious sentiment [Gemüt] regarded by itself and to presuppose an abstract – isolated – human individual.
2. The essence of man, therefore, can with him be regarded only as “species”, as an inner, mute general character which unites the many individuals only in a natural way.

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Deutsch | 1938 translation of Marx’s original | 1969 Selected Works translation | 2002 translation of Marx’s original

Source: marxists.org — original. Shared freely for study.