Production is everything. Everything we do, everything we say. We are products of our parents, society, and even our own minds. “production has a cardinal role: first the idea produces the world; next, nature produces human beings; and the human being in turn, by dint of struggle and labour, produces at once history, knowledge and self consciousness”. I agree but taking this back to the beginning what produced the idea. If you believe in God, who produced him? If you believe in the big bang, what was the precise conditions that produced that? And what about that which produced the big bang?
One could say we did. These are simply man made ideas that have produced the world. Who knows what is true, they are in a sense theories that man made reality because millions of people followed the idea. Global warming could be put in the same respect. Yes polar ice caps are melting but thousands of years ago many deserts had rivers and we aren't trying to get those back. So once again the idea is planted and naturally the human is produced from the idea. Human beings “produce their own life, their own consciousness, their own world”.
Production being labour in some respects. “The more restricted the notion becomes the less it connotes creativity, inventiveness or imagination; rather it tends to refer to labour”. As a matter of wealth a human creates the idea. The idea is then organised into production and labour produces it. This is interesting because is production the same as creation? “a product can be reproduced exactly and is in fact the result of repetitive acts and gestures. Nature creates and does not produce”. I would argue that nature is a type of production. Though you could say my mother created me and then produced the man I am today. So maybe creation has to come before production. Perhaps creation is the idea. Then the idea is put into production from that.
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