The Materialist Conception of History

georgephillip

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"The purpose of this book is to point out the principle of historical philosophy which is at the basis of Marxism, to subject it to a fresh analysis, not with a view to modifying it, but in order to make it clearer and more precise. The principle states that in the last analysis historical development depends upon economic causes."
http://comparsociology.com/wp-conte...urkheim-Rules-of-Sociological-Method-1982.pdf (p. 167)

In the last analysis, historical development depends on economic causes, or in a more modern interpretation: It is the economy, Stupid.

Politics, religion, art, are all part of a superstructure that is predetermined by an economic base. Very little changes until the economy underlying everything else changes.
 

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