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Page 449 - In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Page 448 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Page 448 - In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production.
Page 449 - In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
Page 448 - The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society — the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.
Page 101 - Psychology |1896|(1897) 36. JM Baldwin, Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development (1897) 37. LT Hobhouse, Mind in Evolution (1901) 38. EL Thorndike, An Introduction to the Theory of Mental and Social Measurements (1904) 39.
Page 209 - When the groups are adequately stated, everything is stated. When I say everything I mean everything. The complete description will mean the complete science, in the study of social phenomena, as in any other field. There will be no more room for animistic "causes
Page 38 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 220 - As for political questions under any society in which we are called upon to study them, we shall never find a group interest of the society as a whole.
Page 448 - ... the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes...
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| Title | The Process of Government; a Study of Social Pressures |
| Author | Arthur Fisher Bentley |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1908 |
| ISBN | 1560007788, 9781560007784 |
| Length | 501 pages |
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