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Marx speaks of total emancipation of state and man in one similar act due to the paradoxical nature of the state with relation to man. He describes the ultimate goal being that of man returning to his “true” self (129). However, what is this “true” in relation to and does removing all forms of social distinctions contribute to the reformation of the “true” man?
The “true” man concept that Marx speaks of is possibly in relation to the suppression that the working class of his time felt. Recognition through “abstract citizenship” (abstract citoyen) and not having to revolutionalize social life through its components of private interests, civil law etc, creates a society of “true” men as this revolution, as Marx says, views all these components as “preconditions”. (129) This revolution of “reduction of society and its web of relationships to man himself” leverages on the anger within the working class against the suppression by the bourgeois. As such,......

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