Self-Consciousness and Means of Production

With the positing of 'I exist' as the fundamental proposition of Modern Philosophy, a variety of Idealism is established as its predominant theory, and the duality of Self-Conscious as its central problem.  Treatments of the problem have ranged from the extraction from it of a cosmic Dialectic, to the extrapolation from it of an infinite hall of mirrors.  But, because of its self-imposed limitation of not accepting the existence of anything outside the egological sphere, such Idealism cannot recognize the embodiment of Self-Consciousness in any simple tool.  Now, any tool, as an extension of its user, is Subjective, and, as something that can itself be worked on, is Objective.  So, it tends to confirm the thesis of Parallelism, that Subject and Object are two corresponding but non-coinciding perspectives on one and the same entity.  In other words, the tool demonstrates that a finite entity in a plural world can both act and be acted upon, a mundane characteristic in the light of day that gets mystified when interiorized.  But, the mysterious apparent tension of the Self-Consciousness therein is not between the I-Subject and the I-Object, as Idealists usually take it to be.  Rather, the instability experienced is the resistance of its duality to the futile attempts at a Monistic reduction of it by the I that is entertaining it.  Now, a tool is a means of production.  So, to the Marxist, the Means of Production is the locus of not only Capitalist exploitation, but of the resolution of the contradiction of Idealism, as well.