Nature, Humans, Power

As has been previously discussed, Trotsky's conjoined goals of Socialism--the promotion of the power of humans over Nature, and the elimination of the power of humans over humans--appear to conflict, insofar as humans are part of Nature.  Now, an alternative interpretation of his formulation is suggested by passages from the German Ideology, in which intra-human exploitation is classified as "natural", and is overcome in a communist society.  On that basis, the power over Nature, expressed in the first clause, consists in the power over intra-human exploitation.  However, that interpretation requires the existence of a super-Natural power, e. g. Kantian Reason, though there is no evidence in any of the cardinal Marxist literature of the kind of systematic Philosophical exposition that would adequately explain the dualistic relation between such a super-Nature and Dialectal Materialism.