Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

Critical Theory

2014-10-28

“The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society—the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures” (380).

“The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production—antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism, but of one arising from conditions surrounding the life of individuals in society” (380).

“the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism” (381).


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