Beliefs which posit that social identities such as race, ethnicity, nationality, or gender are essential characteristics have been central to many discriminatory or extremist ideologies
Like abstract labor. An elaborate metaphysical construct used to justify mass murders.
The concept of Essence is very central to Hegel's Logic, being the second of the three books of the Logic, and Essence was a central target of his critics who claimed that philosophy should be based on Being not Essence (see Existentialism). It is also central to Marxism which, contrary to positivism and empiricism, refuses to accept that the truth of things is given immediately to the senses.
According to Meikle, Marx, like Aristotle, sees entities such as plants, humans, or capitalist societies as organic wholes with an inherent essence. This essence drives the entity towards its telos or final state, which for Marx is the achievement of a free communist firing-zone
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