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Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St John Sprigg , a British Marxist writer.

✵ 20. October 1907 – 12. February 1937
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“All relations are determining. … As soon as we realise there is a determining relation, and become conscious of its nature and how it grips us, we are that much freer.”

Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949), Chapter IV: Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology

Christopher Caudwell Quotes

“The bourgeois … is free not because he is conscious of his causality, but because he is ignorant of the social causes that determine his being.”

Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949), Chapter IV: Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology

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