Karl Marx's account of history

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Introduction
The discussion for the following essay is the Marx’s account of history. Karl Marx has
been one of the greatest political figures and reformers and philosophers who through his works
have revolutionized the Russian and world history at the same time. At the Karl Marx, the world
needed a world of history and he knew he had to provide it because he understood the problems
within the world and the revolutionaries (Samuel 2016). In this context, Karl Marx had brought
out his new theory of History in his preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy in the year 1859.
New theory of history
The topics Marx had chosen to deal with were related to the social class and the relation
with the people by means of production. He described that men had to enter into social relations
which are definite. These relations are created in relation to the social production. The economic
structure of the society is built around the totality of the relations of production. These things are
very much relevant when one discusses about the social relations and its connectivity with
history (Resnick and Richard 2013). The production that the material life gives is in close
relation with the social, political and intellectual lives of the human beings. Marx had also
asserted the fact of the importance of psychological consciousness in the lives of the human
beings. The people can understand about these things in the context of the social class only
(Resnick and Richard 2013).
Marx has discussed that historical change in the society can only occur in the context of
the conflict and contradiction among the social people and their relations (Ritzer and Jeffrey
2017). Marx had depicted in his description that at a certain time of the development, the

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material production forces meet with conflicts and contradictions with the society on the basis of
the current relations regarding to the productions. The era of the social revolution begins at a
time when the relations with the productive forces of the society turn to their fetters (Ritzer and
Jeffrey 2017)
Importance of psychology and economics
There is a huge importance of psychology and economics in the context of the social
history and its change (Rabin 2013). Marx has described that when one studies about the social
and moral transformations, one should always keep in mind the distinction between the material
transformations of the economic conditions of production. There are several parameters that can
identify these economic conditions like legal, political, religious, artistic and philosophic
regimes. The social change becomes clear when the people become conscious of those conflicts
and they fight to establish their own viewpoints. These economic changes gradually lead to the
overall transformation of the overall infrastructure of the society (Rabin 2013).
Marx has said time and again that the economics should not be neglected in these issues
because he has spent a large time of his life in the British Library while collecting the economic
data about the social changes that influence the historical changes as well. He exclaimed that any
of the social orders cannot be destroyed if the productive sources in the society have been
properly developed (Bloch 2013). He said that new superior relations could be developed in the
social changes in the historical contexts. However, the older relations regarding to production
cannot be replaced by the newer ones in terms of production. The nature of the mankind is to set
such tasks that can be done only. It has b3en found in this context that the problems can be arisen
only when the material solutions for the problematic condition will be present (Bloch 2013).