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What are the driving forces of change in an economic system? Humans are social beings: "In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness." Life is determined by the circumstances that humans find themselves in: "The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." Source: Preface to a Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1859) 13 Marx's Stages of History Each has their basis in property rights and the class relations that arise from those rights Ø Primitive Communism Ø Ancient World (Slavery) Ø Feudalism Ø Capitalism Ø Socialism Ø Communism 14.