Marx’s eleven theses on Feuerbach traverse the Zodiac beginning from Aries (I explain the correlations below one by one) but this traversal was interrupted at Aquarius = Eleventh Thesis because he was tempted to have his cake and eat it = he wanted his praxis to gloriously trash its theoretical ladder [1] = he wanted to have the revolutionary superpower = he wanted to jump back to Aries without passing through the contextual Piscean confusion, which would require a Twelfth Thesis.

Here are the correlations and here is the text, consult your favourite astrologer to check them yourself:

1: ♈︎) Aries is “human activity itself as objective activity” as opposed to pure abstract theory.

2: ♉︎) Taurus is “proving [this-sidedness/partisanship/Dasein/thrownness] of one’s thinking in practice” as opposed to pointless scholasticism.

3: ♊︎) Gemini is the unity of opposites: “the coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-changing”.

4: ♋︎) Cancer is “the earthly family as the secret of the holy family”.

5: ♌︎) Leo is the human hero (let’s call him the Twelfth Theseus): “sensuousness as practical, human-sensuous activity”.

6: ♍︎) Virgo is the “criticism of the religious essence”.

7: ♎︎) Libra is “belonging to a particular form of society”.

8: ♏︎) Scorpio is “the rational solution of all mysteries in human practice” (Trotsky had his Sun in Scorpio).

9: ♐︎) Sagittarius is “reaching the highest point of contemplative materialism”.

10: ♑︎) Capricorn is how you structure “human society, or social humanity”.

11: ♒︎) Aquarius is the world as the container of interpretations.

12: ♓︎) Pisces would be the interpretations themselves but that was the unsayable blind spot of the symptom that Marx invented, or shall we say, discovered?

Işık Barış Fidaner is a computer scientist with a PhD from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. Admin of Yersiz Şeyler, Editor of Žižekian Analysis, Curator of Görce Writings. Twitter: @BarisFidaner

Notes:

[1] See “Ladders and Philosophy: Context and Scope”