The bourgeois ... is free not because he is conscious of his causality, but because he is ignorant of the social causes that determine his being. (Christopher Caudwell)

The bourgeois ... is free not because he is conscious of his causality, but because he is ignorant of the social causes that determine his being.

Christopher Caudwell

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