There were actually material forces...
There were actually material forces, which in the guise of those beliefs, moved and changed the society. Material forces are the progressive, leading force of history. They are represented, technically, by the society's system of production, and, from the humanistic point of view, by the deprived and exploited class of society. Feuerbach, the famous materialist philosopher, from whom Marx himself has borrowed many of his ideas, raises the following questions: What is theory? What is praxis?
What is the difference between the two? He himself answers that: Everything which is confined to the mind is theoretical. Whatever moves the minds of many is practical necessity. It is action…
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