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Marx could reasonably argue, as in the Theses on Feuerbach, for a transformed materialism that would incorporate idealism as the active side of practice. He wanted to assure due recognition to conscious intelligence as part of human bodies moving in space and time. But he was most concerned with a theory that would account for the new ways in which bodies were moving in space and time, in short, the organization of labor activity. His theory was shaped by the assumptions of a nineteenth-century culture still profoundly indebted to the Enlightenment, with its oppositions of man/nature, subject/object, mind/body, idealism/materialism, reason/ unreason.
To Marx, the labor contract was not an equal exchange but a process of exploitation in which workers did not receive all that they gave. Marx was able fully to face the prospect that capitalism could develop the process of production to the point that labor woud become only an adjunct to it. He stated explicitly that “to the degree that large industry develops, the creation of real wealth comes to depend less on labour time and on the amount of labour employed than on the power of the agencies set in motion during labour time .
The illocutionary result of this strategy is to render the theorist invulnerable to the objections of the reader. Hegel’s Absolute Spirit, Marx’s Proletariat and Habermas’s ideal speech situation are similar speech acts in that they totalize history in order to legitimate theory as universal. To that extent they all work against the project of emancipation they seek to promote. In sum, Habermas has lifted the veil of repression that relegated language to the superstructure in critical social theory.