For Marx, all history rests on successive modes of production

Evidence

For Marx and Engels, “men” (this is the general, historically undifferentiated, way in which people are referred to in this text) intervene in Nature in order to produce and reproduce their material conditions of life. This “intervention” is accomplished through human labor and the use of tools. Human labor, ever since its first rudimentary historical appearance, is only possible through social cooperation between men: these “relations,” which develop between men and constitute the “determinate mode of co-operation,” result from the historically specific mode of men’s social intervention in Nature—their mode of production. The basis of all history is the successive modes of production, including the modes of social cooperation dependent on them. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 480

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the ‘double relationship’ — that social cooperation is both dependent on and partly constitutive of the mode of production.
• XREF: connects to: Marx saw historical development as contradictory rather than unilinear; Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845; Marx grounded all social inquiry in material conditions of production and political economy — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 315 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marx saw historical development as contradictory rather than unilinear; Marx held that production methods determine an epoch’s culture — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2845; Marx grounded all social inquiry in material conditions of production and political economy — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 315 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx saw historical development as contradictory rather than unilinear #complicates (0.75)