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21993 | Materialist history says we are subject to incomprehensible forces [Singer] |
Full Idea: The materialist conception of history tells us that human beings are totally subject to forces they do not understand and control. | |
From: Peter Singer (Marx [1980], 6) | |
A reaction: How does Marx know the forces? An exceptionally influential idea, because it is a modern commonplace that we have very little control over our own lives (apart from right wingers asserting that 'you can have anything if you really really want it'). |