...sums up the ideas for which he and Marx contended : — . " We understand by the economic relations, i which we regard as the determining basis of the history of society, the methods by which ^ ^ j the members of a given society produce their means of support and exchange the products among...

...defined as follows by Engels in one of his letters to the "Sozialistische Akademiker" in which he says: "We understand by the economic relations which we...labor exists. The whole technique of production and transportation is thus included. Furthermore, the technique, according to our point of view determines...

...Starkenburg (25 January 1894), is much less nuanced: "What we understand by the economic conditions which we regard as the determining basis of the history of society are the methods by which human beings in a given society produce their means of subsistence and exchange...

...CONDITIONS, OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE, AND OF CHANCE (1) What we understand by the economic conditions which we regard as the determining basis of the history of society are the methods by which human beings in a given society produce their means of subsistence and exchange...

...a letter of 1 894 Engels clarified the nature of his and Marx's views on historical materialism: By economic relations, which we regard as the determining basis of the history of society, we understand the manner in which men in a given society produce their means of subsistence and exchange...

...the historicalmaterialist outlook on society this way: What we understand by the economic conditions which we regard as the determining basis of the history of society are the methods by which human beings in a given society produce their means of subsistence and exchange...