ABSTRACT
We have seen how characteristics attributed to individuals such as greed, industriousness, asceticism, even pauperism, do not originate with the individual, but with a form of life that makes them possible or intelligible as such. This is not to say that an individual could not evince similar traits in another form of life, but only that they would be understood differently; they would have different meanings. In Marx’s theorizing, the individual’s acts and intentions do not originate with the individual. They are possibilities given with a form of life.
