Summary Of "Europe And The People Without History" By Eric Wolf - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. EUROPE AND THE PEOPLE WITHOUT HISTORYCHAPTER 3 MODES OF PRODUCTIONProduction and social workMARX formulated his concept of MODE OF PRODUCTION based on two assumptions or axioms: 1) the human species is part of nature; 2) man forms a social species whose individual members are linked with each other in social relationships. This species confronts nature and modifies it through production, and by changing nature he changes his own nature.
Marx also emphasizes the sociability of humanity. Human beings live in organized communities and the way they are organized governs the way they confront and transform nature, and nature thus transformed in turn affects their social ties.