SOC396H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Retina, Friedrich Engels, Dialectic
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From the german ideology by karl marx and frederick engels. Marx: revolutionist praxis remain central to marx argument and work and he focuses mainly on agency he receives the most credit for dialectic . German ideology: is hegelianism and philosophical ideas and take history into ideas he engages in dialectic to form this. As a book is attack on philosophical idealism and his own approach is materialist what human value create the type of society. Marx argue: real history must begin on ground level as the basis. The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination. They are the real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which they live, both those which they find already existing and those produced by their activity. These premises can thus be verified in a purely empirical way.