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Newsletter Nr. 901
Amsterdam, October 6th, 2020


TRANSFORMING CAPITALIST DESIRE WITH INTEGRAL MARXISM - JOE CORBETT

In his early writings, Karl Marx speaks of human language and tool use as distinguishing humans from animals. Thus the manipulation of symbols and objects to create their world, or creativity pure and simple, along with the desire and will to do so as a means of survival, is the species-being of humans. More precisely then, desire-will-creativity is the essence of what it means to be human, the human nature that makes our world of nurture.

Of course, all this comes from walking upright which frees the hands, and opposable thumbs for firm grasping and effective tool use, especially in the handling of weaponry in hunting and warfare where communication in groups is also essential. Therefore the desire and will to survive through the creative use of language and tools comes from the subjectivity of human-beings (UL) only insofar as the body (UR), the environment (LR), and social interactions (LL, LR) are also implicated in the kind of beings we have become.

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