Not really. Luck isn’t a real thing. It’s a perception of our past and largely a cultural framing device for your feelings on events that occur in your life. You could argue that some people are lucky by being born into a specific family, but that’s kind of a philosophical issue as it implies that that person may have instead been born into another family as if by some form of divine neonatal cleromancy.
The rest of these for the most part are not material conditions, but are factors primarily affected by your material conditions. Health and appearance are largely affected by genetics, environment, and exposure to certain compounds. Someone raised or living in an area with poor air and water quality or with little access to healthcare is likely to experience more negative health effects than someone from a cleaner environment and access to healthcare and these can affect appearance greatly. One’s intelligence, skill, or dexerity are heavily affected by education, quality of home life during childhood, level of practice, healthcare, nutrition, pollution levels, and other external factors.
These external forces are largely the same for groups of people rather than individuals, which is where Marx largely applies the concept of historical (or dialectical) materialism.
The German Ideology may be helpful for further study.
Not really. Luck isn’t a real thing. It’s a perception of our past and largely a cultural framing device for your feelings on events that occur in your life. You could argue that some people are lucky by being born into a specific family, but that’s kind of a philosophical issue as it implies that that person may have instead been born into another family as if by some form of divine neonatal cleromancy.
The rest of these for the most part are not material conditions, but are factors primarily affected by your material conditions. Health and appearance are largely affected by genetics, environment, and exposure to certain compounds. Someone raised or living in an area with poor air and water quality or with little access to healthcare is likely to experience more negative health effects than someone from a cleaner environment and access to healthcare and these can affect appearance greatly. One’s intelligence, skill, or dexerity are heavily affected by education, quality of home life during childhood, level of practice, healthcare, nutrition, pollution levels, and other external factors.
These external forces are largely the same for groups of people rather than individuals, which is where Marx largely applies the concept of historical (or dialectical) materialism.
The German Ideology may be helpful for further study.