Karl Marx - "The Production of Consciousness" 1845

I am a materialist.  I start from STUFF not ideas.

This is the younger, more humanist Marx.

What distinguishes humans is that they PRODUCE their means of life.

Productive Activity

BOTH what + how

Form of Life

Social Structure

Ideas

"It is not consciousness that determines life, but life that determines consciousness."

Karl Marx - "The Production of Consciousness" 1845

Humans are part individual, part social

Humans are part individual, part social