In Social Theory Re-Wired, Karl Marx explains how humans are different than animals in the sense that humans have the ability to develop a conscious. The reason why consciousness is a crucial theme is because through consciousness, humans begin to realize that they live in a community. “Man consciousness of the necessity of associating with the individuals around him is the beginning of the consciousness that he is living in society at all” (Marx p117). By coming to this conclusion, humans begin to produce any necessary means of substance. Eventually, the increase of needs while the community grows, ends up creating a division of labour. While Marx emphasizes that although the political economy has the capability to recognize that there is
