![]() ![]() It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. ![]() The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. “In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. In 1859, in his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Marx summarized his theory of society in the following famous quote: ![]() Marx’s philosophical world outlook - known as historical materialism - integrates insights from Hegelian dialectics, French socialism, and British political economy. Over the course of his life’s work, he developed and elaborated the theoretical and programmatic foundations of the socialist workers’ movement. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was the founder of scientific socialism. ![]()
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