Because man creates society, the colonial structure’s prognosis lies in human hands.

Evidence

Culture has its roots in what Marx, in The German Ideology , called man’s “double relation”: to nature and to other men. Men, Marx argued, intervene in nature and, with the help of certain instruments and tools, use nature to reproduce the material conditions of their existence. But, from a very early point in the history of human development, this intervention in nature through labor is socially organized. Men collaborate with one another—at first, through the collective use of simple tools, the rudimentary division of labor, and the exchange of goods—for the more effective reproduction of their material conditions. This is the beginning of social organization, and of human history. From this point forward, man’s relation to nature becomes socially mediated. The reproduction of human society, in increasingly complex and extended forms, and the reproduction of material existence are fundamentally linked: in effect, the adaptation of nature to man’s material needs is effected only through the forms which his social collaboration with other men assumes. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• For Marx, human labor’s relation to nature is always socially organized and mediated. (similarity 0.89)
• For Marx, human culture arises only through socially organized labor. (similarity 0.86)
• Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor (similarity 0.84)
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (similarity 0.81)
• Marx treats culture as accumulated human mastery over nature, not mere description (similarity 0.80)
• Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #corroborates (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881