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So far my objections have attacked my claims that secularization perfects religion and that its perfection consists in finding the absolute in fallible authenticity.
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French Marxist existentialists criticized this Marxist determinism: “il faut au marxiste même une décision qui n’a sa source qu’en lui; et cette autonomie n’est pas le privilège (ou la tare) de l’intellectuel, du bourgeois: le prolétariat pris dans son ensemble, en tant que classe, peut prendre conscience de la situation de plus d’une manière; il peut vouloir la révolution à travers un parti ou un autre” (Beauvoir 1947:29).
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Russell (1994), http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html p. 7.
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But in (1982, 1st manuscript, section on estranged labor) Marx assumes that the only action worth doing is the pursuit of intrinsic goals. On the dream of automats that relieve humans of toil, cp. Aristotle, Politics I, 1253b34. Marx, Capital I, Chap. 15 Sect. 3, B, refers to Aristotle and the Stoic Antipatros as representatives of this dream.
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Steinvorth, U. (2017). Weberian Rationalization Is a Hegelian Red Herring. In: Secularization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63871-3_14
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