For my people...

“Labour...as the creator of use values, as useful labour, is a condition of human existence which is independent of all forms of society.” It is “an eternal and natural necessity which mediates the metabolism between man and nature and therefore human life itself.” (p. 133) The labor process, he later asserts, must be considered “independently of any specific social formation” because it “is the universal condition for the metabolic interaction between man and nature, the everlasting nature-imposed condition of human existence, and therefore it is independent of every form of that existence, or rather it is common to all forms of society in which human beings live.”