production relations

Agents' class position derives from their place in production relations, not their gender or supposed race.

Both productive forces and production relations progress independently of mankind's strategic intentions or will.

Piece work production relations were introduced wholesale.

Production relations progress, with a degree of inevitability, following and corresponding to the development of the productive forces.

This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle.

Studies of the impact of production relations on a group's identity have not been complemented by equivalent studies based upon consumption.

Humans are inevitably involved in production relations (roughly speaking, economic relationships or institutions), which constitute our most decisive social relations.

And, in turn, these production relations are determined by the level and character of the productive forces that are present at any given time in history.

Marx identified the production relations of society (arising on the basis of given productive forces) as the economic base of society.

But conversely, the failure of these mechanisms would explain the emergence of new production relations, which in turn would have consequences for other aspects of society.

Production relations (Marx: Produktionsverhältnis) are the relations humans enter into with each other in using the means of production to produce.

When a given style of production relations no longer supports further progress in the productive forces, either further progress is strangled, or 'revolution' must occur.

It is not merely that 'state capitalist trusts' compete on the world market, but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations.

The apparatus of our state economy forms a component part of the production relations of Soviet society, that is, it is itself wholly included in the 'basis'.

Avakian agrees that the possibility exists of eliminating exploitive production relations and class relations in society and their expression in social relations and ideas.

It was not evident, they claimed, that the relations of production become "fetters" once the productive forces are capable of sustaining a different set of production relations.

He stressed that such a result could not be arrived at a priori but only by experimentation on a large scale with great demands on data collection, even assuming fixity of production relations.

Marx then extended this premise by asserting the importance of the fact that, in order to carry out production and exchange, people have to enter into very definite social relations, most fundamentally "production relations".

Production relations which "caused the alienation of the working people from property and from the results of their work" were being dismantled, and conditions were being created for "free competition of socialist producers".

It was not until after Stalin's death that a minimum wage was introduced, reductions to piece work production relations were made, and mass rehabilitations resulted in the dissolution of most of the gulag system.

Monopolistic employers' associations, combined enterprises, and the penetration of banking capital into industry created a new model of production relations, which transformed the unorganised commodity capitalist system into a finance capitalist organisation.

Second, there is the political criticism which can be levelled at the dichotomous view which makes 'structural reform of the production relations of society' a precondition for any meaningful democratisation of the enterprise.

Every type of state is a powerful institution of the ruling class; the state is an instrument which one class uses to secure its rule and enforce its preferred production relations (and its exploitation) onto society.

Althusser explains the reproduction of the relations of production by reference to aspects of ideological and political practice; conversely, the emergence of new production relations can be explained by the failure of these mechanisms.

Whereas classes are large-scale social groups upon whom production relations confer unequal access to the results of that production, the bureaucratic group in Soviet-type societies is constrained to act according to the rules and objectives set by the corporate organization.