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ar-15863	Noonen, Jeff	Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society	2011	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8782	373	47	Thus human beings share three sets of life-requirements corresponding to the three dimensions of human life: Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society | 201 physical-organic requirements of biological life, socio-cultural require- ments of human life as a socially self-conscious agent, and temporal requirements of free human life. While it is true, as John Bellamy Foster has demonstrated, that Marx did not ignore the natural foundations of human life but in fact understood labour as humanity’s metabolism with nature and criti- cised capitalism for imposing a “metabolic rift” between human beings 198 | Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research in Critical Times and their natural life-support system, it remains true that Marx under- stood an essential element of socialism to be the unlocking of productive potential suppressed by capitalism (Bellamy Foster, 2000, p. 141-177).	cache/ar-15863.pdf	txt/ar-15863.txt