From: Ted Winslow
Here is another elaboration of the idea of social relations as internal relations from the German Ideology. ^^^^^ CB: I was starting to think that internal relations _are_ social relations, as when you say: "Relations are internal where the essence of the individual is the outcome of its relations. "Robinsonades" are those who implicitly treat the essence of the individual as independent of its relations. In reference to classical political economy, it means the, according to Marx, mistaken treatment of a kind of individuality that in fact is the outcome of particular internal relations including particular internal historical relations as independent of these relations, as a fixed "human nature." Is there something more to the concept of "internal relations" than the important emphasis on the priority of the social within the human individual ? What is the "intuitive" in "direct intuitive observation" ?
