Hi everyone, welcome to another entry of our Short Attention Span Reading Group.

The Text

Theses on Feuerbach: eleven points on Feuerbach, a fellow Hegelian, written by Marx, famously culminating in

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

The text is very short, but very dense with information and assumed knowledge. So what can we learn about dialectical materialism from this text?

Past SAS RG

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    4 years ago

    Significant brevity is coherent, that is why it is the least quick to put itself into words. Thus the understanding must repeatedly prove itself anew in such propositions.

    The worst part about Marxist scholar Ernst Bloch is that he writes like a Marxist scholar.