SOC 3701 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The German Ideology, Productive Forces, Presupposition
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First premises of materialist method: real individuals, their activity and the material condition under which they life (already existing and produced) Can be verified in a purely empirical way: the existence of living human individuals- their relation to the rest of nature, begin to distinguish themselves from animals when they begin to produce their means of subsistence. Are directly producing their actual material life: what they produce depends on the nature of the actual means of substance they find in existence and have to reproduce.
