Marx's Dialectical Materialism in History and Social Science

John Bellamy Foster has emphasized in Marx's work the term social metabolism, which is much more encompassing. The idea that what's animating the development of human societies through history is this intercourse between humans in nature and humans on their ordering of power and wealth within their societies. It really is this way of showing consistently throughout during his work how there are all these different presuppositions that he sort of bakes into the cake rather than showing the ingredient list or how the cake gets made.