Marks's Theory of Human History

Marks divided the eras of human history up by their prevailing mode of production. The basic questions we are going to be asking ourselves are, what are the means of production? Who owns or controls the means ofProduction? What are the relations of production that surround and enable those means? Where is the surplus production going? What is the class conflict? How are the forces of production being developed? Those of fundamental questions. And i heartily endorse this sentiment, by the way, he says this in the eighteenth brumer of louis bonaparte. Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. They do not makeIt under self selected circumstances, but under