Jim Devine wrote:
The word "essence," unfortunately, has idealist connotations. On the other hand, "shared characteristics" focuses on the real-world, empirical, phenomena without seeing them as mere reflections on Plato's cave wall. There is something in the real world that is shared by these real-world phenomena
On this understanding of "real-world, empirical, phenomena," what real world phenomena have the "shared characteristics" constitutive of Marx's idea of "the true realm of freedom"? Ted
