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I The chief defect of all hitherto existing materialism – that of Feuerbach included – is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation ( Words), but not as sensuous human activity ( CB: Action), practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the active (Action) side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such. Feuerbach wants sensuous objects, really distinct from the thought objects, but he does not conceive human activity (Action) itself as objective activity . Hence, in The Essence of Christianity, he regards the theoretical (CB: Words) attitude as the only genuinely human attitude, while practice is conceived and fixed only in its dirty-judaical manifestation. Hence he does not grasp the significance of “revolutionary”, of “practical-critical”, activity (Action).



II The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory (Words)but is a practical ( Action) question. Man must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice (Action). The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking (Words ) that is isolated from practice (Action) is a purely scholastic question.<


The philosophers have only interpreted(Words) the world, in various ways; the point is to change it (by Action)


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