PHL317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Young Hegelians, The German Ideology, Blue-Collar Worker
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From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. If we keep relating to ourselves in the same way, we won"t be able to maximise productive capacities of our new tools, technology and knowledge. We can"t use machines effectively if we relate to each other as serfs and landlords. Something social has to change to maximise effect. With the change of the economic foundations the entire immense superstructure is more or l rapidly transformed. Every case of social change has a history like this. So we need laws and social institutions that are conducive to the new social structure. In broad outlines asiatic, ancient, feudal, and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society. This social formation bri therefore, the prehistory of human society to a close. Theory of european history and a material explanation of it.
