“There is no more fundamental distinction between men, psychologically and morally, than the one between those who love death and those who love life, between the necrophilous and the biophilous.” (Erich Fromm) For Marx the “struggle between capital and labor…was the fight between aliveness and deadness, the present versus the past, people versus things, being versus having. For Marx the question was: Who should rule whom – should life rule the dead, or the dead rule life?” (cited in Fromm, To Have or To Be?) Put differently, “Being refers to life and to the present; having, to death and to the past” (Fromm, On Being Human). The roots of the having structure are “one’s sense of powerlessness, one’s fear of life, one’s fear of the uncertain, [and] one’s distrust of people.” (Fromm, The Art of Being)