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Excerpt from The German Ideology by Marx and Engels (1845-1846)
Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas  composing the ruling class
possess among other things consciousness, and therefore proves
to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an "eternal law".
itself their chief source of livelihood), while the others'
attitude to these ideas and two parts, which, however, in the
case of a practical collisio n, in which the class itself is
endangered, automatically comes to nothing, in which case there
also vanishes the semblance that the ruling ideas were not the
ideas of the ruling class and had a power distinct from the
power of this class. The existence of revolutionary ideas in a
particular period presupposes the existence of a revolutionary
class; about the premises for the latter sufficient has already
been said above.       If now in considering the course of
history we detach the i