Forces of Production and Relations of Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23628958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Laibman (Brooklyn College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 77-96 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.013.2 |
| OpenAlex | W2897253305 |
| ISBN | 9780190695545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Marx and Engels based the movement for socialism and communism on a scientific analysis of social evolution rather than on ahistorical moral longings. This, however, requires replacement of vague evocative formulations by rigorous theoretical foundations. Two recent proposals for grounding the theory of the forces and relations of production—“intentional primacy” and “competitive primacy”—provide elements for this project but fail to drive it home. A proposed third approach, “social‒functional primacy,” focuses on the correspondence between advancing human power over nature, on the one hand, and the changing requirements for reproducible systems of exploitation—incentive, coercion, and control—on the other. A core evolutionary ladder of modes of production is identified as the basis for reconstructing the immense complexity of actual history, thus overcoming the dichotomy between “hard” and “soft” approaches to historical materialist theory.
Coercion (linguistics) · Communism · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Incentive · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Microeconomics · Mode of production · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Production (economics) · Productive forces · Relations of production · Socialism · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |