Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Friedrich Engels
Of the elements handed down to a latter age from an ealier, is a form of intercourse which corresponded to a less developed stage of the productive forces. the relation of the productive forces to the form of intercourse of the relation to the form of the occupation or activity of the individuals.
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After reading this passage from "The German Ideology," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels I can honeslty say that I am completely and utterly confused. I feel that his sentence were to long and, didn't flow very well together. It was hard to pay attention to them too. But I am going to try and make as much sense as I possibly can from this sentence.
I beleive the first part of this sentence is easy enough to understand, when he says "Of the elements handed down to a latter age from an earlier.." they are saying that the elements will be handed down from generation to generation. They then goes on the write, "...is a form of intercourse which corsponded to a less developed stage of the productive forces." I feel as though he is saying that there is a union starting to form between the "less developed stage," and "productive forces," meaning that they were seperate before. Marx and Engels than go on to say, "The relation of productive forces to the form of intercourseintercourse of the relation to the form of the occupation of activity of the individuals." After reading this sentence I felt that it meant that they are saying that the union that is formed is than declared by the individuals activity. It is the individual that chooses their own destiny. I don't know how relavent this example is but after reading this sentence it made me think of a thrid world country. I felt that it's saying if this people in the country would combine their less developed stage with some productivity they could really start to make progress. But it all depends on the individual. If all the individuals do it together than they could strengthen their community.
This sentence was particularly confusing for me because like most of the sentences in this passage it seems to jump around. It's hard to figure who and what they are actually talking about. One minute their talking about a generation and the next their talking about individuals. I found a webstite that I believe would be good for helping students understand Marx and would also be good for lessons, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm.
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