“In conditions of private property … “life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.”

"The Foundations of Historical Materialism," Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972), p. 32

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist 1898–1979

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