Property and Means of Production

Following his introduction, in Philosophy of Right, of grasping and form-imposition, as modes of "taking possession", Hegel next considers the use of an object.  Now, insofar as using an object requires grasping it, and taking possession is a means to use, the latter is prior to and presupposed by grasping.  Furthermore, if he were thinking dialectically in these passages, he might discover the synthesis of the use of an object with the imposition of form on another, e. g. in, as he himself presents, agricultural and raw material processes.  In other words, implicit in these passages on the topic of Property is the concept of the Means of Production, the conspicuous absence of explicit recognition of which is significant from a Marxist perspeective.