ENGLISH 161 Lecture 3: English 161 Week 3 Readings

• School: Berkeley
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 161
• Professor: Marcial Gonzalez

Document Summary

Engels, when discussing historical materialism, believed that independent wills, in relation to the totality were of a secondary importance. institution is the result of laws of nature. in the first case origins of social institutions cannot be identified, history becomes fixed and there is no acknowledgement that men are the ones who shape social institutions. Thus marx takes away the historical perceptions in which history itself is being objectified and steers it back to the objectifying of social relations. Individual man"s motives, while important, are the material that make up historical analysis, prevents potential inferences and assessments of society"s structure as a whole according to objective and specific situations. Significant actions in history therefore are made up of the class as a whole and those actions. Secondly we seek to answer the practical significance of the relations between economic totality, class consciousness, and psychology of men (the practical function of class consciousness)