“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
