"Thus the communists in practice treat the conditions created by production and intercourse as inorganic conditions, without, however, imagining that it was the plan or destiny of previous generations to give them material, and without believing that these conditions were inorganic for the individuals creating them."
I understand the main focus of the essay, this sentence in particular throws in some new adjectives that weren't entirely made clear. What do Marx and Engels mean by inorganic conditions?
Since no one's done it yet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
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Although I cant provide a definition for "inorganic conditions" (much as I searched the web) Marx and Engeles are concerned in this essay with materialisms, the products of production. Therefore, perhaps inorganic can be understood in this context.
Marx/Engels study history and society by examining it's material reality. This includes the study of both the means of production and the social forces, (like division of labor). Furthermore, these two authors study, and I think it is being intimated here with "previous generations", the evolution of this materialism throughout the ages and among different nations.
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