...serve as the 'guiding thread' to his work, he writes that in the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive...

...relationship between material reality and human consciousness: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive...

...condensed description of the central points of his method: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive...

...the single fullest explanation was in Marx's A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy: 1. In the social production which men carry on they enter...development of their material powers of production. 2. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society —...

...stated in different versions in the popular writings of Engels. Here is Marx's classic exposition: In the social production which men carry on they enter...will; these relations of production correspond to a particular stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations...

...literature, etc. - is determined by the economic base: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable...a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure...

...these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of...structure of society - the real foundation on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness....

...production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes...structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness....

...(World Bank 2003: 2). 6 Capitalism and class 1 Marx's actual words (in translation) are as follows: "The sum total of these relations of production constitutes...structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness....

...foundation and superstructure. This is the famous text in The Critique of Political Economy: The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic...structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises the legal and political superstructure and to which corresponds deftnite forms of social consciousness....