s mitigated by his natural attachment to his labor and the means of production; when man was isolated from this attachment, his selfishness was likely to disappear as he found common cause with others experiencing exploitation.
Marx also saw manÆs ônatural animal spiritsö as focused on creative, productive activity (Tucker, xxxi). Capitalism, however, inhibited the expression of this creativity by tying wager laborers so firmly to meaningless work that their own propensity for creativity and activity was quelled. The very few individuals whose ôcreativityö flourishes in capitalism do benefit from the system, but these benefits are limited in the extreme. Nature becomes a pupil, as it were, of the system; however, Marx held that eventually the working class would revolt against the exploitation to which they were subjected and that this revolution would usher in an era of equality and justice for all. Overthrowing the system would then return man to a state of nature in which natural creativity could flourish.
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