If we continue the analogy we will see that even more important than the forces are relations of production. The American worker thinks he is free, but he is chained to the machine. So politics must be in command. We must try to find our real relationship to things. Through language we appropriate the world and our selves, existence creating essence in a process that can never be complete.
History is alienation as it appears to consciousness.
When we return to Eden we will possess full consciousness and alienation will end. They are returns to the Eden of before the snake. In the beginning was the world.