But whereas “it’s only common sense” is rarely used by anyone much above the level of a radio talk show host, the “human nature” argument carries enough prestige to be used by economists, politicians and even some social scientists. When the “human nature” argument is invoked it means “I can’t think of any other argument other than I’m right because that’s how people are”. Like the oft-heard phrase “it’s only common sense” which is invariably used to support any contention based on very little evidence except for perhaps received wisdom. It is a fallacious argument and absolutely unfounded but it is also very persistent. It seems that the stock argument anyone makes who is losing the argument about the case for communism boils down to a general dismissive statement that communism is impossible because of human nature, that people are inherently selfish and greedy. By thus acting on the external world and changing it, we at the same time change our own nature." It opposes itself to nature as one of her own forces, setting in motion arms and legs, head and hands, the natural forces of the body, in order to appropriate nature's productions in a form adapted to its own wants. "Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both humans and nature participate, and in which humanity of its own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material reactions between itself and nature.
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