- Rajesh Tyagi/ 15.11.2018
Sexual relations of the man are part of and integral to overall social relationships among humans. In turn and in final analysis, but in final analysis only, these relations are relatable to definite modes of production, within whose ambit they emerge and exist. Nevertheless, the relations continue to exist and under certain conditions, for fairly long periods of time, even when the modes of production in which they were born and flourished, whither away or are overthrown, long back. Existence of these relations, devoid of an economic base corresponding to them, creates an illusion, a blinding of the consciousness of man who lives through these relations, as if these relations exist independent of their own, as ‘free choice of free man’.
Every mode of production has its own corresponding set of social relations that are specific to it. It is these relations that are translated into norm within the realm of morality. In this sense, every society in history, has been a complex territory for a distinct system of social relations, that find their echo in morality of that society.
Sexual relations of the man are part of and integral to overall social relationships among humans. In turn and in final analysis, but in final analysis only, these relations are relatable to definite modes of production, within whose ambit they emerge and exist. Nevertheless, the relations continue to exist and under certain conditions, for fairly long periods of time, even when the modes of production in which they were born and flourished, whither away or are overthrown, long back. Existence of these relations, devoid of an economic base corresponding to them, creates an illusion, a blinding of the consciousness of man who lives through these relations, as if these relations exist independent of their own, as ‘free choice of free man’.
Every mode of production has its own corresponding set of social relations that are specific to it. It is these relations that are translated into norm within the realm of morality. In this sense, every society in history, has been a complex territory for a distinct system of social relations, that find their echo in morality of that society.
