1. (p. 16 - 21) Marx discussses the "four moments, four aspects of the fundamental historical relationships": satisfaction of living needs, production of new needs, propagation of family, and social exchange. He then claims that consciousness is a product of social interactions, fundamentally animal, herd-like, and thus concepts like theology and ethics are essentially subservient to those basal conceptions. That seems to me a rather cynical view - what do you guys think? Are our lives essentially animalistic in nature?
2. Is there really a difference between "history" and "world history", and if so, how do we differentiate between them? Would we then conceive of "everyday life" as part of "history"?
(EDIT: I attended a Marxist Student Association meeting last night, so I apologize if my views have been colored by that.)
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