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Which political ideology did Merleau-Ponty engage with throughout his career?
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Marxism played a pivotal role in Merleau-Ponty's intellectual development, serving as a guiding framework for his philosophical inquiry throughout his career. Grounded in the critique of capitalism, class struggle, and the alienation of labor, Merleau-Ponty's engagement with Marxism provided him with a lens to analyze social and political phenomena, shaping his understanding of embodiment, intersubjectivity, and the relationship between consciousness and the material world.
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