For my AMD I continue reading The German Ideology by Karl Marx, primarily the subsection on Fourierism. Marx continues his unrelenting attack against Herr Grünn; only indirectly revealing his own beliefs in his criticism of Grünn’s criticism of Fourier. Marx criticizes Grünn’s reliance on his ‘essence of man’ as a critique of psychology, instead suggesting a perspective that views man in “his real historical activity”. Grünn’s criticism of Fourier’s use of mathematics is also condemned, although Marx does not offer his own views on the subject. Marx, indirectly and implicitly, insists that the purely theoretical fields of philosophy, religion, and political theory cannot be seen as or used to interpret historical and economical transitions, but rather that the latter should be used to interpret and analyze the former. He ends the subsection with a comical mocking of Grünn attempt at justifying the rising economists belief in the unity of production and consumption. Sam Engel