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Human Production

A spider conducts operations which resemble those of a weaver, and a bee through the construction of its wax cells puts many a human architect to shame. But what above all distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is that he has already built  the cell in his head before he builds it in wax. At the end of the labor process a result comes about which was already present ideally in the representation of the labourer at its beginning. He not only works a change in form on something natural; he at the same time actualises in something natural his own purpose, and he knows this purpose as determining the kind and mode of his action, and as something to which he must subject his will.

Karl, Marx, Das Kapital, (Mew 23/193)

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