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Marxists often repeat [[Karl Marx]]'s [[theory]] of human nature, which they accord an important place in his critique of [[capitalism]], his conception of [[communism]], and his materialist conception of history. Marx, often refers to ''Gattungswesen:'', which is translated as 'species-being' or 'species-essence'. According to a note from Marx in his manuscripts from 1844, the term is derived from Ludwig Feuerbach's [[philosophy]], in which it refers both to the nature of each human and of humanity as a whole. However, in his sixth theses on Feuerbach, Marx criticizes the traditional conception of human nature as a species which incarnates itself in each individual, instead arguing that human nature is formed by the totality of [[social]] relations.

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