My inquiry led me to the conclusion that neither #legal relations nor #political forms could be comprehended whether by themselves or on the basis of a so-called general development of the human mind, but that on the contrary they originate in the #material conditions of life, the totality of which Hegel, following the example of English and French thinkers of the eighteenth century, embraces within the term “civil society”; that the anatomy of this civil society, however, has to be sought in political economy. [Karl #Marx] <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm">Karl #Marx, Economic Manuscripts: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy</a>