"There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness."
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The Materialist Conception of History, 1891, Ch. 6.
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Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Plekhanov (29 April 1856 – 30 May 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist philosopher.
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