ABSTRACT
Human production is always social. Humans do not produce individually or in isolation. They rely upon their collectivism to create their production and the forms of property that they possess. As Marx puts it, the community is always the prerequisite for human production of property: the family, the family expanded into a tribe, and tribe as inter-family connections, and so on, as human social relations develop and enlarge. Humans’ relation to production is naive. They simply take the conditions as given without realizing the social presuppositions necessary to their individual activities. “In reality, appropriation by means of the process of labour takes place under these preconditions, which are not the product of labour but appear as its natural or divine preconditions” (Marx 1964a: 69, original emphasis).
