Human beings create themselves through deliberate process and consciousness to transform and manipulate nature. Engel (1975) argues that the materialist conception is determined by the production and reproduction of existing life. In which this has two characters; “The first is the production of livelihoods, such as food and clothing. On the other, the production of human beings themselves, the propagation of the species." The social organization of human life is determined by the two types of production; “from the stage of development of work, and of the family on the other” (Engels, 1975: pp.71-72). However, the whole process was not done by men or women separately, but as a collective to create society (Tong, 1998: pp. 95;
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