Revisiting ‘The Holy Family’: Marx, Engels and the Foundations of Historical Materialism - MR Online
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Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

Statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Bishkek, Kirghizstan. Source: Wikicommon / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-SA 4.0

Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

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