Marx and Engels,through their critique of Feuerbach's views on the relationship between human existence and essence and their transcendence of Hegel's"theory of conditions",unveiled the dialectical relationship between individual autonomous activities and living conditions.From the natu-ral dimension,individual autonomous activities and living conditions are consistent,where real indi-viduals externalize their living conditions through autonomous activities,which in turn internalize into these activities.From the actual dimension,under the prevailing conditions of capitalist logic,due to the alienation of individual autonomous activities,living conditions become contingent factors that dominate individuals,causing a separation between human existence and essence.From the normative dimension,only within the realm of a true community can the alienated forms of individual autono-mous activities be eliminated,transforming living conditions from being dominated by contingency to being controlled by all members of society.This transformation achieves the dialectical unity of hu-man existence and essence in practice,paving the way for the free and comprehensive development of real individuals.
Individual autonomous activitiesLiving conditions"The German Ideology"