...historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from thek physical life-process. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...set out from real, active men, and on the basis of thek real life-process we demonstrate the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this...

...opposition to forms of idealist philosophy and historiography, especially that of Hegel and his followers. 'In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from what has been said, thought, or conceived of men, in order to arrive at men in the flesh. We begin...

...historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here it is a matter of ascending from earth to heaven. That is to say, not of setting out from what men...

...the primacy of subjectivity and relegated social transformation exclusively to the ideational realm: "In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven." 21 Although many are familiar enough with the Marx who "turned Hegel on his head," there appears to...

...seems as if it has been made into a hypostesized reality. One should remember Marx's admonition that "in direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven." 35 Gumplowicz held that the historic process is the record of the rise and fall of countless successive...

...seems as if it has been made into a hypostesized reality. One should remember Marx's admonition that "in direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven."35 Gumplowicz held that the historic process is the record of the rise and fall of countless...

...argued Marx, but consciousness is determined by, is the product of, the material conditions of history. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...men in the flesh. We set out from real, active men. . . . The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process....

...agency to culture. As the two founders of Marxism put it themselves in The German Ideology (pp. 14-15), In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven . . . We set out from real active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the...

...historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical lifeprocess. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven. This is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought...

...somehow determines the outcome of material life. As Marx and Engels put it in The German Ideology. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends...order to arrive at men in the flesh. We set out from the real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of...