The German Ideology [...]  From the first there follows the
premise of a highly developed division of labour and an
extensive commerce; from the second, the locality. In the first
case the individuals must be brought together; in the second
they find themselves alongside the given instrument of
production as instruments of production themselves. Here,
therefore, arises the difference between natural instruments of
production and those created by civilisation. The field (water,
etc.) can be regarded as a natural instrument of production. In
the first case, that of the natural instrument of production,
individuals are subservient to nature; in the second, to a
product of labour. In the first case, therefore, property
(landed property) appears as direct natural domination, in the
second, as domination of labour, particularly of accumulated
labour, capital. The first case presupposes that the individuals
are united by some bond: family, tribe, the land itself, etc.;
the second, that they are independent of one an