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Is It Better To Work Out Consciously And Critically One's Own Conception Of The World And Thus, In Connection With The Labours Of One's Own Brain, Choose One's Sphere Of Activity, Take An Active Part In The Creation Of The History Of The World, Be One's Own Guide, Refusing To Accept Passively And Supinely From Outside The Moulding Of One' Own Personality?

One Must Speak For A Struggle For A New Culture, That Is, For A New Moral Life That Cannot But Be Intimately Connected To A New Intuition Of Life, Until It Becomes A New Way Of Feeling And Seeing Reality

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?

Man Is Above All Else Mind, Consciousness -- That Is, He Is A Product Of History, Not Of Nature.

Economy And Ideology. The Claim (presented As An Essential Postulate Of Historical Materialism) That Every Fluctuation Of Politics And Ideology Can Be Presented And Expounded As An Immediate Expression Of The Structure, Must Be Contested In Theory As Primitive Infantilism, And Combated In Practice With The Authentic Testimony Of Marx, The Author Of Concrete Political And Historical Works.