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Marx & Engels Materialist Theory Of History.
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Marx & Engels Materialist Theory Of History In 1859, in the preface to his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Marx wrote that the hypothesis that had served him as the basis for his analysis of society could be briefly formulated as follows: "In the social production that men carry on, they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and intellectual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men which determines their existence; it is on the contrary...
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