Marx is a materialist and he believes that we need to start with the material conditions of life, such as how human beings work to feed, clothe, and house themselves and their family. The material conditions of life change over time, which comes from the development of technology (what Marx calls “productive forces”) and the social relations associated with it. This historical development is not linear. Instead, it proceeds through moments of agreement and moments of contradiction between the “productive forces” and the “relations of production.” Feudal production turned into bourgeoisie revolution that leads to a bourgeois mode of production and cause proletarian revolution ultimately. The capitalist mode of production contains within itself
