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“So, people make their own history, striving to meet their needs. These needs are initially provided, of course, by nature; but then they are significantly changed, in quantitative and qualitative terms, by the properties of the artificial environment. The productive forces at the disposal of men determine all their social relations. First of all, the state of the productive forces determines the relations in which people become related to each other in the social process of production, i.e., economic relations. These relations naturally create certain interests that find their expression in law. “Every legal provision protects a particular interest,” says Labriola.
The development of the productive forces creates a division of society into classes whose interests are not only different, but in many respects, and in the most essential respects, diametrically opposed. This opposition of interests gives rise to hostile clashes between social classes and their struggle. The struggle leads to the replacement of the tribal organization by the state, whose task is to protect the dominant interests. Finally, on the basis of the social relations conditioned by the given state of the productive forces, ordinary morality grows up, i.e., on the basis of the social relations that are determined by the given state of the productive forces. the morality that guides people in their ordinary everyday practice “(G. V. Plekhanov, “On the Materialist Understanding of History”).