The animal is immediately identical with its life-activity¹. It does not distinguish itself from it. It is its life-activity. Man makes his life-activity itself the object of his will and of his consciousness. He has conscious life-activity. It is not a determination with which he directly merges. Conscious life-activity directly distinguishes man from animal life-activity. It is just because of this that he is a species being. Or it is only because he is a species being that he is a Conscious Being, i.e., that his own life activity is an object for him. Only because of that is his activity free spirit. Estranged labour reverses this relationship, so that it is just because man is a conscious being that he makes his life-activity, his essential being, a mere means to his existence.
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
(tr. Martin Milligan, in The Marx-Engels Reader)
¹ productive life, labour.
Això del mot diari ha durat ben poc, però aquesta setmana ho tornaré a intentar.
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