Some more on Marx

"Marx's materialist conception of history is the central idea in Marx's thought. He saw the development of history as determined by the forces of material production. So the material side, the forces of production, dominate the mental side of our life. Our ideas, our religion, our politics, all flow from the kind of economic structure we have in our society. That is an inversion of Hegel's view of history. As Marx himself said, he had stood Hegel on his head. For Hegel, of course, it was the development of Mind that led to the formation of particular societies and particular historical epochs."

Peter Singer.

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