The paper is structured in three sections. The first part is a demonstration of Karl Marx’s timeless signature thinking styles—- the radical and the dialectical—- through a revisit of the competing notions of human nature and accounts of alienation from various traditions—- mostly economic and philosophic. His engagements of these dominant narratives did not only usher him to propose his own theory but more saliently the young Marx, an interlocutor in this skirmish of ideas, exhibited his cerebral styles to attenuate these monolithic knowledge structures and to justify why a new episteme of human nature is warranted. The radical and dialectical imaginations of Marx will be intentionally magnified for the “immortalization” project. The second part showcases another warrant for celebrating his celebration and it also offers a humble means of immortalizing his signature thought processes.
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