Reading in one of Marx’s essays today, I came across this line:
And there it is. One of the fundamental differences between between Marxism and reality. man is not the ant or bee. Man may be gregarious, but he is not a social organism in the sense of the Hymenoptera. Man is the individual.
I am not the State. I am not society. I am not the world of men. I think. I feel. I exist. This is more than can be said for these others, which are no more than abstract concepts and do not have consciousness. When I say the word “I”, I do not mean “society”. And when I act, I act, not society. If society has a consciousness or mind of it’s own, I do not experience it first hand, the way I experience my own consciousness and mind.
I am the one who must deal with my own existence.
