In the Agile Manifesto, the first line is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. The way I interpret this is that we should first endeavour to understand the way people communicate and work towards a common purpose, giving them the space necessary to make that natural and efficient.
Only when we have this understanding should we create rules and structures, seeking to formalise and enforce that particular way of working.
In other words, processes and tools follow from the needs of the people carrying out the work and are meant to evolve with those needs.
Considering this then, it is quite surprising to realise that the Scrum framework is a process. Sure, it is defined as a framework, but it is formulated as a process. The fact that companies are actually able to adopt Scrum literally and without modifications proves that it can be used as a process. This will typically end in disaster of course, but the actual outcome of a process does not play a part in defining whether it as a process.