May we remind you?
Hegel already showed in his mathematical studies how the emergence of genuine dialectical contradictions creates the semblance of an irrationality for metaphysical thinking.
But at the same time, he showed how dialectical thought can resolve the contradictions into a higher rationality.
Marx, on the other hand, shows us the concrete circumstances that raise the problems of irrationalism and turn their intellectual reflection into methodological, philosophical problems of irrationalism.
Here it is the case that, what ordinary common sense finds irrational is the rational, and what it holds to be rational is irrationality itself.
Of course, there is nothing more dull or tedious than fantasies of a locus communis, which is why the "revolutionary but gangster" mentality finding expression since 1996 (Roman calendar) in the music of the American hip-hop group known as Dead Prez is actually refreshing when it sets its sights on political motifs and things like the struggle for manhood, etc. It would be difficult to overstate the greatness of what M-1 and Stic.man have accomplished in the intellectual realm (i.e. daring to struggle against God; daring to win).
At this stage of social development, the concept of man is just a more palatable term for gangster.
It's often said that such a filthy way of life originates in the codes of the streets:
"A gangster is a man who's organized. He knows what he's going to do before he do[es] it."
"A gangster is a man who uses his brain, controls his own destiny."
"Gangster, he definitely is about his business."
"It's about being productive."
"It is horrible the things we do in pursuit of loot; everything I've been through has made me what I am."
"Been gone, been back. Cuffed and stuffed. Been running for my life since I've been alive. I've been in crack house raids, packing the gauge. I got a gun case, but that was bullshit. I've been in hospitals with no health insurance."
"Is that any way for a man to carry on?"
How does Dead Prez remain absolutely true to itself when the more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual, and hence also the producing individual, appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole?
"I've been to Germany; don't want to do it again."