but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

Yeah this is definitely just a terminology argument, they’re arguing for dialectical materialism but phrased it as if they believed in supernatural determinism, probably because supernatural free will is the default hardline stance for most people and it’s satisfying to take the direct opposite take the way it’s satisfying to be Satanist and stuff

Or maybe they think Communist Jesus defines all our actions idfk