History, Writing, Evolution

Marx-Engels' "Materialist" discussion of History in the German Ideology is likely an alternative to the Idealist concept of Hegel, among others.  But, that classification is too broad to account for the specific content of the text--Human History, i. e. because non-Human History is also Materialist in their doctrine.  That content, more precisely, consists in the "modification . . . through the action of men" of "natural bases".  However, they bypass further analysis of such modification, which, as has been previously discussed, is the product of Transformal Causality.  They also bypass any elaboration of the "writing of history".  Thus, to begin with, they do not consider that something else that distinguishes the Human from other species is Writing as a mode of Communication.  They, thus, also do not recognize that Writing is as much a unique "action of men" as is producing means of subsistence.  Accordingly, it does not occur to them that the Writing of History has its own History.  Now, by their own premise, that History is a product of modification, i. e. of Transformal Causality applied to some given concept of History.  But, even if they were to recognize that the Materialist concept of History that is the product of a modification of Idealist, is itself subject to further modification, they likely would not anticipate that the product of that transformation might be Evolutionist History.  For, that History, which is as much a product of a modification as is any means of subsistence, also recognizes that both Writing and tool-wielding are grounded in the same Evolutionary development--that of the Human thumb.  In other words, the writing of Evolutionist History is an Evolutionary development of Marx-Engels' Materialist History, i. e. by incorporating the emergence of the Human thumb, and the act of Writing, into the latter.