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We are not mere machines (opens the original)
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In my previous essay, we looked at Marx and Engels’ premise for a conception of history, that individuals must live in order to have the capacity to “make history,” and that living requires, “before everything else,” basic means of subsistence: food, water, housing, clothing, etc. Rather than starting with the fantastical ideas of some individual taken in isolation, their method of writing history situates individuals and their ideas in the context of the social and political relations by which
A materialist conception of history (opens the original)
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Marx and Engels’ posthumously published text The German Ideology contains a famous line: “Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.” <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height
The eternal revolutions of the modern industrial cycle (opens the original)
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The ultimate object of political economy has been to increase the absolute mass of accumulated wealth in society, leaving it to moralists and politicians to divide the yearly produce and the permanent accumulation in whatever proportions their mysterious wisdom might think fit; satisfied with the achievement of increasing the wealth (the productive powers of the labor) of the society, and confident that comfort and happiness must, somehow or other, or somewhere or other, be the necessary consequ
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