It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The statement expresses a broadly materialist premise associated with Marx: human societies cannot simply will themselves beyond objective constraints (the “laws of nature”), whether these are physical limits or the basic conditions of material reproduction. What does vary across epochs is how those constraints are mediated—through different social relations, technologies, and institutions—so the same underlying necessities appear in historically specific “forms.” Read this way, the line pushes back against utopian or purely voluntarist politics: transformation is possible, but it must work through real conditions rather than imagining their abolition. It also echoes Marx’s method of distinguishing enduring constraints from historically changing social forms.