Land, Means of Production, Dialectical Materialism

For Marx, the Means of Production entails both the instruments of Labor and the objects of Labor. So, while his classification of Land, along with all raw materials, as an object of Labor is not peculiar, the implied classification of it as a 'means' in the production of goods is. However, that status illustrates the distinctions between Dialectical Materialism and Dualism, on the one hand, and Naturalism, on the other other. For, common to Naturalism and Dualism is the concept of Nature as, in Phenomenological terms, an In-itself, whereas for Dialectical Materialism, it is For-us. Now, Darwinism, by providing a pre-human history of Nature, presents a formidable Naturalist challenge to Dialectical Materialism, to which the latter can respond by asserting that the Organism-Environment relation that is essential to Darwinism is a Dialectical one, thereby proving that that variety of Naturalism is, in fact, a species of Dialectical Materialism. In any case, the classification of Land as part of the Means of Production seems to be an expression, perhaps a vestige of Hegelian Phenomenology, of a reluctance to conceive it, and other raw materials, as In-itself.