Since relations of mutual recognition are, by definition, the
creation solely of reason, they can't come into being in social contexts where willing and acting remain to some degree instinctive. This point is explicitly made in the passages I quoted.
^^^^^ CB: Is _reason_ itself _instinctive_ to humans (uniquely) ? This is what I was trying to get at when I asked whether there is a biological component in the unique human capacity to form relations of mutual recognition.
On the other hand, Marx doesn't anticipate that all human instinct will be obliterated in communist society, does he ? Some willing and acting will be instintive ( other than reason, if it is also instinctive) even after people have mutual recognition and self-determination. For example, humans will still have sexual instincts, eating instincts. Surely sexual instinct is within some mutual recognition.
But the main question here is, don't humans reason better than apes ( or at all) because humans have an instinct to reason, have different biological equipment than apes ?