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The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Disease is an outcome of generations of suffering, of social conditions, of cultural conditioning, of childhood trauma, of physiology bearing the brunt of people’s stresses and emotional histories, all interacting with the physical and psychological environment. It is often a manifestation of ingrained personality traits, yes—but that personality is not who we are any more than are the illnesses to which it may predispose us.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
In the case of money, whether it is a money commodity or a piece of paper, a social relationship appears as an objective property of a thing. And just as with the commodity, social actors do not have to be aware of the mediating relation in order to act: “Anyone can use money as money without necessarily understanding what money is” (Theories of Surplus Value, MECW 32:348).
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
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