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Developing capitalism more and more isolated the individual from society. The "egoist", introspective philosophies that arose at the time are ways to cope with the destruction of old social relations by glorifying individualism.

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>implying it's not commodification and alienation

Don't.

ITT: people who cant understand Hegel dismiss him as unfalsifiable out of hand

fucking refified bourgeois consciousness

>vulgar marxism

People in this thread are giving me cancer. The central tenet of Orthodox Marxism aren't Marx's empirical claims but his dialectical materialist model for understanding capitalism as a social totality that produces a society, not just an economy. A social economics can't exist until the capitalist totality is destroyed. Viewing the realm of freedom from the realm of necessity is impossible because our thought is conditioned by the reification of commodities.