General term for the relationship forged by men based on the relations of production in the process of their common social practical activities. Man is a “species-being”, and the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality he is the ensemble of the social relations. Social relations are built on the basis of the practical activity of society, in the practical process of men’s production and life, including material and intellectual life, while they are also the forms of existence of the practical activity of society. Marx pointed out that definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way enter into definite social and political relations. Moreover, social relations are based on the relations of production, the economic relations of society…
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