Just as religion was a form of alienation for human beings, so was German philosophy because it divorces man from reality, making him only a spectator of processes in which he was involved. Initially everything is Nature, including human beings. This differentiation cannot take place in thought however, but only in objective reality. Man overcomes alienation, negates the negation. The products of ones labor belong to the laborer.
Man is also social.
The basic one is the family. History moves forward by the dynamic interaction between the two relationships already mentioned. Human beings use means of production to satisfy needs fresh needs then present themselves new and further means of production Human beings form relations of production to satisfy needs fresh needs then present themselves new and further relations of production. For Marx all social relations are at root economic. For Marx the State is only an abstraction, and a source of alienation.