Marx’s conception of human flourishing is broadly Aristotelian: it consists in the exercise of essential human powers. The good life for humans thus includes the following components. It consists in activities that exercise a wide range of human capabilities. Such activity should be free, both voluntary and autonomous – self-directed, according to one’s own ideas. It is social, in the sense of promoting others’ welfare, and being motivated by that end. This activity is recognized by the agent and others as having this social character, such that it is common knowledge between the agent and beneficiaries that the agent acted for the beneficiaries’ sakes, and that the beneficiaries appreciate that fact.