Karl Marx, Historical Materialism, in Karl Marx: A Reader, p. 200
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In bourgeois economics - and in the epoch of production to which it corresponds — this complete working-out of the human content appears as a complete emptying- out, this universal objectification as total alienation, and the tearing-down of all limited, one-sided aims as sacrifice of the human end-in-itself to an entirely external end.

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An economist is a practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.