"These various conditions, which appear first as conditions of self-activity, later as fetters upon it, form in the whole evolution of history a coherent series of forms of intercourse, the coherence of which consists in this: thats in the place of an earlier form of intercourse, which has become a fetter, a new on is put, corresponding, to the more developed productive forces and, hence, to the advanced mode of the self-activity of individuals - a form which in its turn becomes a fetter and is then replaced by another."
I don't understand how an interchange of ideas has anything to do with being chained or bogged down.
Also, the guy who translated this work could of picked a better word than intercourse.
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I'm as lost as you are in this whole passage but I think that I might have a slight idea of what their trying to say here. It's possible they're refering to the whole idea of the new replacing the old, how new more advanced thoughts render previous ones obsolete. I'm really not sure though.
I agree with you about the "intercourse". It probably means an exchage of some sort but, with the better-known definition of intercourse, the word makes the text that more enigmatic.
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