“Stalin certainly held this view, and so did many Bolsheviks, with their hypostasization of social forces over individual desires and intentions.”

“This famously chagrined Carnap, for whom such a seeming hypostatization of negation was the very epitome of metaphysical nonsense.”

“The hypostatization of this idea, therefore, although it may be natural, is deeply problematic.”

“What Eagleton needs here is political theory, not historical salvation through the hypostatization of Marx's enlightened opinions.”