The Social Changes And Political Revolutions

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To begin with, “ The social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men 's brains, not in man 's better insight into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange” by Engels. Basically what Engels’s means by that is the materialist formation of history starts from the scheme of the production and how exchanges of things are produced, and that is the basis of all social structure. Fundamentally, as in every society it has emerged in history and it still is happening that the manner in which wealth is distributed and how the society is divided into classes or estates is dependent upon what is produced, and how it is produce, and how the products are exchanged. And this is what that needs to be sorted out. Therefore, the mode of production is playing a big role in today’s society and also as it did back in the days. Everything is dependent; one person is dependent on other in this society. Moreover, society is divided into two groups; one group is whom who are ruling over the other group by taking his/her rights; capitalism is playing its role. Moreover, changes in the productive forces are more powerful cause of revolution. In conclusion, Engels takes an historical materialist approach. He indicates that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally contradictory and from this he traces a series of social and economic conflicts that follow inevitably from this basic contradiction by establishing Historical
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