It is often thought that Marx, despite starting out as a philosopher, sought to break with philosophy in order to carry out his mature work. In this essay, Christoph Schuringa argues that Marx's overall project, culminating in Capital, is not concerned with replacing philosophy with some other enquiry, but to raise philosophy itself to its highest power and to actualize it. As a philosopher, Marx, far from carrying out any derivative work, sought to surpass his predecessors s

"Contradiction is a problem for knowing, a problem for doing things together, and a problem for living and feeling." 

"Our unfreedom under capitalism stems from how the purpose of our economy, of our life-sustaining activities, is already decided."

"Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

"Concepts are fundamentally determined by their relations to one another, so it’s hard to tinker with them in isolation."