ENGLISH 3EE3 Lecture 9: Lecture Nine (Oct.3.18)
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Us has a large influence on his theory. Marx(cid:495)s theory (cid:498)in the social production of their existence; men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation [the base], on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines. The bourgeois (proletariat) are going to strike back against the systems that have oppressed them. Marx a, a contribution to the critique of political economy (1859) The trial in native son their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness(cid:499) .