Practice question · Put in order
Put Marx’s modes of production in his sequence.
- Ancient slave society
- Socialism
- Primitive communism
- Capitalism
- Feudalism
Hints
- The sequence is a staircase inherited from an earlier philosopher.
- It knows its ending in advance, as its predecessor did.
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- Primitive communism
- Ancient slave society
- Feudalism
- Capitalism
- Socialism
Why
A staircase inherited straight from Hegel, with the mode of production where Spirit used to stand. And, like Hegel’s, it knows its ending, which is where the trouble starts.
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