...nor I have ever asserted more than this. If somebody twists this into saying that the economic factor is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, absurd phrase. The economic situation is the basis but the various elements of the superstructure also...

...less automatically. There is an interaction of independent, though unequal, forces. Engels writes: According to the materialist conception of history,...proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase (Engels to Bloch, 1890, in Marx and Engels, 1955:417). A question may be raised as to the effect of...

...economic factors by some of the younger Marxists. In a letter written in 1890 to Joseph Bloch he said: According to the materialist conception of history,...this into saying that the economic element is the onfy determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase...

...materialist conception of history' an 'an excuse for not studying history'.165 And he goes on to insist that, according to the materialist conception of history,...reproduction of real life. More than this neither Marx or I have ever asserted. Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the...

...the Spirit of Capitalism, New York, 1958, p. 277, n. 84); and Engels: "According to the materialistic conception of history, the ultimately determining...reproduction of real life. More than this neither Marx not I has ever asserted. Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the...

...September 1890: "According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element is the production and reproduction of real life. More than this neither Marx nor I has ever said." This determinism may not apply to universal history, and to modern history it applies...

...or Marx had singled out the economic element as the only determining one. But he still insisted that "the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life." He admitted that other factors — especially political ones and "the traditions which haunt human...

...conception of history the determining element in history is ultimately the production and reproduction in real life. More than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted. If therefore somebody twists this into the statement that the economic element is the only determining...

...interaction of independent, though unequal, forces. In his correspondence with Bloch, Engels noted that according to the materialist conception of history,...proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless plmi.se.1-" In Marx's schema the linkage from nature to society has a dual function. Nature provides...

...labelling, wrote: 'According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining clement in history is the production and reproduction of real...More than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted ... If someone twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms...