SOC203H1 Chapter Notes -The German Ideology
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Thought and being are indeed distinct, but they also form a unity. Relations of production are also political and legal relations. Division of labour renders these relation independent to each. Such concepts are accepted due to independent existence assumed. These concepts are validated by political scientists and jurists. Those who lack the means of mental production fall subject to it. Dominant material force in society is also dominant intellectual. Means of material production controls means of mental production. Dominant ideas are the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships. These ideas make on class the ruling one. They are consequently the ideas of its dominance. Division of labour is also present in the dominant class. Some are the thinkers (coming with concepts, ideologies, illusions of their own class) and the others are the active members( receptive and passive of these ideas)
