Arendt recognizes that Marx was a great thinker. Her central criticism of Marx is that he elevates the laboring activity as the fundamental human capacity of man. She summarizes Marx with the sentence: “Labor is the creator of man.” For Arendt, labor is that which binds us to nature. It is the physical activity that keeps us bounded to our condition as living animals. For her, the good life cannot come from the laboring activity itself. We must be liberated from labor and freed to participate in the public realm.
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