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Single Idea 5286
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Full Idea
Most historians see in history just the political actions of princes and states, religious and all sorts of theoretical struggles, and in particular in each historical epoch have had to share the illusion of that epoch.
Gist of Idea
Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
Source
K Marx / F Engels (The German Ideology [1846], §1.B)
Book Ref
Marx,K./Engels,F.: 'The German Ideology', ed/tr. Arthur,C.J. [Lawrence and Wishart 1985], p.60
A Reaction
Is it an illusion of our epoch that we share the illusions of our epoch? It seems unfair to say that Marx and Engels can see beyond the illusions of their epoch, but some historian writing about the Wars of the Roses can't. Princes were important.
The
24 ideas
from 'The German Ideology'
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23872
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'Society determines consciousness' is contradictory; society only exists in minds
[Weil on Marx/Engels]
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5277
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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life
[Marx/Engels]
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5280
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Language co-exists with consciousness, and makes it social
[Marx/Engels]
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5281
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Consciousness is a social product
[Marx/Engels]
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5276
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The nature of an individual coincides with what they produce and how they produce it
[Marx/Engels]
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5278
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Philosophy is no more than abstractions concerning observations of human historical development
[Marx/Engels]
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5274
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Young Hegelians proposed changing our present consciousness for liberating critical consciousness
[Marx/Engels]
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5273
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Young Hegelians think consciousness is chains for men, where old Hegelians think it the bond of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5282
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If the common interest imposes on the individual, his actions become alienated and enslaving
[Marx/Engels]
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5283
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In communist society we are not trapped in one activity, but can act freely
[Marx/Engels]
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5275
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Men distinguish themselves from animals when they begin to produce their means of subsistence
[Marx/Engels]
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5284
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Communism abolishes private property and dissolves the powerful world market
[Marx/Engels]
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5279
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Human history must always be studied in relation to industry and exchange
[Marx/Engels]
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5286
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Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
[Marx/Engels]
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5285
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Slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine
[Marx/Engels]
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5288
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The class controlling material production also controls mental production
[Marx/Engels]
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5290
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The revolutionary class is opposed to 'class', and represents all of society
[Marx/Engels]
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5287
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Philosophical problems are resolved into empirical facts
[Marx/Engels]
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5289
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When aristocracy or the bourgeoisie dominate, certain values dominate with them
[Marx/Engels]
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5291
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The law says private property is the result of the general will
[Marx/Engels]
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5292
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Individuals are mutually hostile unless they group together in competition with other groups
[Marx/Engels]
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5293
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Only in community are people able to cultivate their gifts, and therefore be free
[Marx/Engels]
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5294
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To assert themselves as individuals, the proletarians must overthrow the State
[Marx/Engels]
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21992
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Producing their own subsistence distinguishes men from animals
[Marx/Engels]
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