ABSTRACT
Karl Marx achieved a method of inquiry into human history and social relations that is premised on the investigation of human practical activity. Central to human practice is their reproduction through processes of social production. Humans produce themselves as subject and object through their class relations, as they occupy those social positions within that social production. We can get an idea of Marx’s method by 4 rst summarizing human production as a social and mutually creative unity in which relations essential to their reproduction are premised and repeated and extended as a particular form of class dominance. As the dominant form of production becomes the premise for ever more human beings, those premises are simultaneously narrowed for the ruling class which reaches the limits of the form of its appropriation. I will 4 rst summarize these relations, then examine social production as the extension of humans themselves and go on to a more detailed examination of Marx’s method.
