POL SCI 4 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: State Ownership, Social Relation

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Ancient communal and state ownership - more developed. Feudal or estate property (b) chief form of property during federal epoch: landed property with sef labour and labour of individual with small capital commanding labor of the journeymen. Production of ideas is directly interwoven with material activity of real life. In contrast to german philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, we ascend from earth heaven - not set out from what men say but from real active men, and develop ideological reflexes based on real life process. Forms of consciousness has no history, men alter their thinking and the products of their thinking - life determines consciousness. When reality is depicted, philosophy as independent branch of knowledge loses its medium of existence - the abstractions from the observations of history have no value. Before history may occur, men must in a position to live in order to make history.