The problem with the liberal state and ideology is that it reflects the way capitalism is codified; the structure of capitalism is such that there are people who have to sell their labor, because they do not have their own means of capital or investment; and those who have the necessary means to advance their capital can then in turn exercise control over the market, thus exploiting and alienating the worker. Furthermore, this division of labor inhibits the worker's ability to create or shape his or her own nature; or of their “species-being”, as Marx would say. “Man lives by nature...That the physical and spiritual life of man is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is part of nature” (Marx 62). Here Marx refers to humanity as a whole by describing the essence of its productive nature – man as