The German Ideology

1. On page 30 Marx states that, "History must therefore always be written according to an extraneous standard ; the real production of life seems to be beyond history, while the truly historical appears to be separated from ordinary life, something extra-superterrestrial." So does Marx mean that history should only be written of what happened scientifically (what happens in nature) and totally exclude religion, beliefs and values out of the picture because even in the modern world today, religion is a big factor of people's history and background.

2. On page 19 Marx states that, "for language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men. Where there exists a relationship, it exists for me: the animal has no "relations" with anything, cannot have any. For the animal, its relations to others does not exist as a relation." Does Marx mean that the lives of animals are non existent because they do not have relations to one another like humans do? Because animals are aware that they, much like humans, recognize that they do have parents and they are aware of who their parent is and who is not. So is it wrong of him to say that they are technically not really existing because they have no "relations"?