essentially active, creative beings, and labor is the paradigm of human creative activity.

two philosophical concepts that are central to Marx’s critique of capitalism, alienation,

we can resolve superstition into history.

We convert theological questions into secular questions.

Is there a viable alternative to the use of the market as an organizing principle of our economy and more generally, of society?

The capitalist, meanwhile, has done nothing, but has all of the surplus value.

Communism would not be a society of equal result or equal achievement.

free to develop their talents and abilities.

that history is to be explained in terms of economic developments rather than the development of ideas