The book Essays On the Materialistic Conception of History was written by author Antonio Labriola Here you can read free online of Essays On the Materialistic Conception of History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays On the Materialistic Conception of History a good or bad book?
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And we ex- plain our position thus as Marx has done in his Capital, not the first book of critical communism, but the last great book of bourgeois economics. At the moment when the Manifesto was written the historic horizon did not go beyond the classic world, the scarcely studied German antiquities and the Biblical tradition which had only lately been re- duced to the prosaic conditions of all profane his- tory Our historic horizon is now quite another thing, since it extends to the Aryan anti...qui- ties and to the ancient deposits of Egypt and Me- sopotamia which precede all the Semitic traditions. And it extends still further back into prehistory, that is to say, into, unwritten history. Morgan has given us a knowledge of ancient society, that is to say a pre-political society, and the key to understand COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. 87 how from it came all the later forms marked by monogamy, the development of the paternal family, the appearance of property, first of the gens, then of the family, lastly individual, and by the successive establishment of the alliances between gentes which are the origin of the State.
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