![]() ![]() From this it follows that this transformation of history ![]() Napoleon, and thus became the real basis of the glorious Wars of Napoleonic Continental System, caused the Germans to rise against Have proved their world-historical importance in the nineteenth centuryīy the fact that the lack of these products, occasioned by the Or again, take the case of sugar and coffee which The whole form of existence of these empires, this invention becomes a Thus, for instance, if in England a machine is invented, whichĭeprives countless workers of bread in India and China, and overturns Nations naturally brought forth by these, the more history becomes world Production and intercourse and the division of labour between various Of the separate nationalities is destroyed by the developed mode of The further the separate spheres, which interact on one another,Įxtend in the course of this development, the more the original isolation Which earlier history exercises on later history. “destiny,” “goal,” “germ,” or “idea” of earlier history is nothing more than an abstraction formed from later history, from the active influence “a person rating with other persons” (to wit: “Self-Consciousness,Ĭriticism, the Unique,” etc.), while what is designated with the words Thereby history receives its own special aims and becomes The discovery of America is to further the eruption of the French Later history is made the goal of earlier history, e.g. This can be speculatively distorted so that One hand, continues the traditional activity in completely changedĬircumstances and, on the other, modifies the old circumstances with aĬompletely changed activity. History is nothing but the succession of the separate generations,Įach of which exploits the materials, the capital funds, the productiveįorces handed down to it by all preceding generations, and thus, on the Conclusions from the Materialist Conception of History The State and of the rest of the idealistic superstructure, has, however,Īlways been designated by the same name. Out of production and commerce, which in all ages forms the basis of Civil society as such onlyĭevelops with the bourgeoisie the social organisation evolving directly Property relationships had already extricated themselves from theĪncient and medieval communal society. Insofar, transcends the State and the nation, though, on the other handĪgain, it must assert itself in its foreign relations as nationality, and ItĮmbraces the whole commercial and industrial life of a given stage and, Within a definite stage of the development of productive forces. Itself to high-sounding dramas of princes and states.Ĭivil society embraces the whole material intercourse of individuals History held hitherto, which neglects the real relationships and confines Source and theatre of all history, and how absurd is the conception of Already here we see how this civil society is the true Tribe, the more precise determinants of this society are enumerated in Premises and basis the simple family and the multiple, the so-called The latter, as is clear from what we have said above, has as its The form of intercourse determined by the existing productive forces atĪll previous historical stages, and in its turn determining these, is civil The Illusion of the EpochĬivil Society and the Conception of History Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook B. ![]()
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