10-29-2012, 11:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2012, 11:56 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Well, we can certainly agree that there were no nation states or governments back then. That being the case, that would mean there was no classes either, because class society necessitates a State by default. If you try to subjugate others without the legitimacy of State power to back you up, it isn't going to last for long, lol. Sure, we can't know the exact details down to the very fabric of daily life from that time, but we know enough to have a fairly accurate interpretation of how they were organized. Even Darwin's theory of Evolution wasn't completely legitimized and accepted by the mainstream until well after he died, but he turned out to be very correct. I think such is the case with Marx and his dialectical conception of history as well, at least up to this stage thus far. Whether socialism and eventually communism come to fruition remains to be seen, but it isn't out of the question by any means. I think Marx did for the historical development of our species, what Darwin did for the biological development of it.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)