Notes regarding points which have to be mentioned in this context and should not be forgotten.
1. _War_ develops [certain features] earlier than peace; the way in which -- as a result of war, and in the armies, etc. -- certain economic conditions -- e.g.. wage-labor, machinery, etc. -- were evolved earlier than within civil society. the relations between productive power and conditions of communication are likewise particularly obvious in the Army.
2. The relation of the hitherto existing idealistic historiography to realistic historiography. In particular what is known as history of civilization, the old history of religion and states.
(The various kinds of historiography hitherto existing could also be discussed in this context; the so-called objective, subjective (moral and others), philosophical [historiography].)3. Secondary and tertiary phenomena, in general _derived_ and transmitted_, i.e., non-primary, conditions of production. The influence of international relations.
4. Reproaches about the materialism of this conception: relation to naturalistic materialism.
5. Dialectics of the concepts productive power (means of production) and relations of production; the limits of this dialectical connection, which does not abolish the real differences, have to be defined.
6. The unequal development of material production and, e.g.., that of art. The concept of progress is on the whole not to be understood in the usual abstract form. Modern art, etc. This disproportion is not as important and difficult to grasp as within concrete social relations -- e.g.., in education. Relations of the United States to Europe. However, the really difficult point to be discussed here is how the relations of production as legal relations take part in this uneven development. For example, the relations of Roman civil law (this applies in smaller measure to criminal and constitutional law)to modern production.
7. This concept appears to be an inevitable development. But vindication of chance. How? (Freedom, etc., as well.) (Influence of the means of communication. World history did not always exist;history as world history is a result.)