As Marx said: 'The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.'
I studied Marx because I had to. Marx (and any of his contemporaries) didn't know anything about psychology. There's no simple causality between (social) existence and consciousness. Btw., in the German original he doesn't say anything about (i)social[/i] existence. "Das Sein bestimmt das Bewußtsein." All this, of course, has nothing to do with my original question.
I never thought that this would be my most answered thread.
