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materialism">Dialectical materialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ideology#Marxist_interpretation" title="Ideology">Ideology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_philosophy_of_nature" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist philosophy of nature">Philosophy of nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Philosophy in the Soviet Union">Philosophy in the Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reification_(Marxism)" title="Reification (Marxism)">Reification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_ethics" title="Marxist ethics">Marxist ethics</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #b20000;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy" title="Critique of political economy">Critique of political economy</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> 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title="Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)">Capitalist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_mode_of_production" title="Socialist mode of production">Socialist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Productive_forces" title="Productive forces">Productive forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_socialism" title="Scientific socialism">Scientific socialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism" title="State monopoly capitalism">State monopoly capitalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surplus_product" title="Surplus product">Surplus product</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socially_necessary_labour_time" title="Socially necessary labour time">Socially necessary labour time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Value-form" title="Value-form">Value-form</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wage_labour" title="Wage labour">Wage labour</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div 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href="/wiki/Marxism_and_religion" title="Marxism and religion">Marxism and religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_sociology" title="Marxist sociology">Sociology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_philosophy" title="Marxist philosophy">Philosophy</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #b20000;;color: var(--color-base)">Common variants</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base, #202122 ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/Structural_Marxism" title="Structural Marxism">Structural</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomism" title="Autonomism">Autonomist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guevarism" title="Guevarism">Guevarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titoism" title="Titoism">Titoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Gramscianism" title="Neo-Gramscianism">Neo-Gramscianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_school" title="Regulation school">Regulation school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism%E2%80%93Third_Worldism" title="Maoism–Third Worldism">Third-worldist</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/History_and_Class_Consciousness#Summary" title="History and Class Consciousness">Hegelian</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Budapest_School" title="Budapest School">Budapest School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_humanism" title="Marxist humanism">Humanist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neue_Marx-Lekt%C3%BCre" title="Neue Marx-Lektüre">Neue Marx-Lektüre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Marxism" title="Open Marxism">Open</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_Marxism" title="Political Marxism">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxis_School" title="Praxis School">Praxis School</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> Both</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_radical_tradition" title="Black radical tradition">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Marxism" title="Classical Marxism">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communization" title="Communization">Communization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_feminism" title="Marxist feminism">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leninism" title="Leninism">Leninism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Marxism" title="Neo-Marxism">Neo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Marxism" title="Post-Marxism">Post</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Marxism" title="Western Marxism">Western</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #b20000;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Marxist_schools_of_thought" title="Marxist schools of thought">Other 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class="mw-redirect" title="Situationist">Situationist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics" title="Socialism with Chinese characteristics">Socialism with Chinese characteristics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wertkritik" class="mw-redirect" title="Wertkritik">Wertkritik</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #b20000;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_contributors_to_Marxist_theory" title="List of contributors to Marxist theory">People</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Engels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Lafargue" title="Paul Lafargue">Lafargue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaak_Illich_Rubin" title="Isaak Illich Rubin">Rubin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kautsky" title="Karl Kautsky">Kautsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Plekhanov" title="Georgi Plekhanov">Plekhanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois" title="W. E. B. Du Bois">Du Bois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Connolly" title="James Connolly">Connolly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Lenin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg" title="Rosa Luxemburg">Luxemburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" title="Karl Liebknecht">Liebknecht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Kollontai" title="Alexandra Kollontai">Kollontai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov" title="Alexander Bogdanov">Bogdanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Stalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Trotsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henryk_Grossman" title="Henryk Grossman">Grossman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev" title="Grigory Zinoviev">Zinoviev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Bloch" title="Ernst Bloch">Bloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs" title="György Lukács">Lukács</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Korsch" title="Karl Korsch">Korsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin" title="Nikolai Bukharin">Bukharin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Serge" title="Victor Serge">Serge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci" title="Antonio Gramsci">Gramsci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirsaid_Sultan-Galiev" title="Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev">Galiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Pashukanis" title="Evgeny Pashukanis">Pashukanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amadeo_Bordiga" title="Amadeo Bordiga">Bordiga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Benjamin" title="Walter Benjamin">Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jyoti_Basu" title="Jyoti Basu">Basu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Mari%C3%A1tegui" title="José Carlos Mariátegui">Mariátegui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Horkheimer" title="Max Horkheimer">Horkheimer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Palme_Dutt" title="R. Palme Dutt">Dutt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Brecht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse" title="Herbert Marcuse">Marcuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Kalecki" title="Michał Kalecki">Kalecki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm">Fromm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cox" title="Oliver Cox">Cox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre" title="Henri Lefebvre">Lefebvre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._L._R._James" title="C. L. R. James">James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno" title="Theodor W. 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It is first explicitly used in Marx's published book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Philosophy" title="The Poverty of Philosophy">The Poverty of Philosophy</a></i>, although Marx and Engels had already defined the term in <i><a href="/wiki/The_German_Ideology" title="The German Ideology">The German Ideology</a></i> which was only published posthumously in 1932. </p><p>Some social relations are voluntary or freely chosen (ie. a person chooses to associate with another person or a group). But other social relations are involuntary, i.e. people can be socially related, whether they like that or not, because they are part of a family (ie. biosocial kinship) a group, an organization, a community, a nation, etc. </p><p>By "relations of production", Marx and Engels meant the sum total of social relationships that people <i>must</i> enter into in order to survive, to produce, and to reproduce their means of life. As people <i>must</i> enter into these social relationships, i.e. because participation in them is not voluntary, the totality of these relationships, along with the <a href="/wiki/Forces_of_production" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces of production">forces of production</a>, constitute a relatively stable and <a href="/wiki/Base_and_superstructure" title="Base and superstructure">permanent <i>structure</i></a>, the "economic superstructure" or <a href="/wiki/Mode_of_production" title="Mode of production">mode of production</a>. </p><p>The term "relations of production" is somewhat vague, for two main reasons: </p> <ul><li>The German word <i>Verhältnis</i> can mean "relation", "proportion", or "ratio". Thus, the relationships could be qualitative, quantitative, or both. Which meaning applies can only be established from the context.</li> <li>The relations to which Marx refers can be social relationships, economic relationships, or technological relationships.</li></ul> <p>Marx and Engels typically use the term to refer to the <a href="/wiki/Socioeconomics" class="mw-redirect" title="Socioeconomics">socioeconomic</a> relationships characteristic of a specific epoch; for example: a <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">capitalist</a>'s exclusive relationship to a <a href="/wiki/Capital_good" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital good">capital good</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Working_class#Marxist_definition:_the_proletariat" title="Working class">wage worker</a>'s consequent relation to the <a href="/wiki/Capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist">capitalist</a>; a <a href="/wiki/Feudal_lord" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudal lord">feudal lord</a>'s relationship to a <a href="/wiki/Fief" title="Fief">fief</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Serf" class="mw-redirect" title="Serf">serf</a>'s consequent relation to the lord; a <a href="/wiki/Slavemaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavemaster">slavemaster</a>'s relationship to their <a href="/wiki/Slave" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave">slave</a>; etc. It is contrasted with and also affected by what Marx called the <a href="/wiki/Forces_of_production" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces of production">forces of production</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="How_Marx_uses_the_concept">How Marx uses the concept</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: How Marx uses the concept"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Here are four famous quotations showing Marx's use of the concept of relations of production: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these <b>relations of production</b> constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing <b>relations of production</b> or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the <b>property relations</b> within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>1859 Preface to <i><a href="/wiki/A_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy" title="A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy">A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy</a></i></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Economic categories are only the theoretical expressions, the abstractions of the social relations of production, M. Proudhon, holding this upside down like a true philosopher, sees in actual relations nothing but the incarnation of the principles, of these categories, which were slumbering – so M. Proudhon the philosopher tells us – in the bosom of the "impersonal reason of humanity." M. Proudhon the economist understands very well that men make cloth, linen, or silk materials in definite <b>relations of production</b>. But what he has not understood is that these definite social relations are just as much produced by men as linen, flax, etc. Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production, in changing the way of earning their living, they change all their social relations. The <a href="/wiki/Hand-mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand-mill">hand-mill</a> gives you society with the feudal lord; the <a href="/wiki/Steam-mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Steam-mill">steam-mill</a> society with the industrial capitalist. The same men who establish their social relations in conformity with the material productivity, produce also principles, ideas, and categories, in conformity with their social relations. Thus the ideas, these categories, are as little eternal as the relations they express. They are historical and transitory products. ... The <b>production relations</b> of every society form a whole.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i><a href="/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Philosophy" title="The Poverty of Philosophy">The Poverty of Philosophy</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02.htm">[1]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We have seen that the capitalist process of production is a historically determined form of the social process of production in general. The latter is as much a production process of material conditions of human life as a process taking place under specific historical and economic <b>production relations</b>, producing and reproducing these production relations themselves, and thereby also the bearers of this process, their material conditions of existence and their mutual relations, i.e., their particular socio-economic form. For the aggregate of these relations, in which the agents of this production stand with respect to Nature and to one another, and in which they produce, is precisely society, considered from the standpoint of its economic structure. Like all its predecessors, the capitalist process of production proceeds under definite material conditions, which are, however, simultaneously the bearers of <b>definite social relations</b> entered into by individuals in the process of reproducing their life. Those conditions, like these relations, are on the one hand prerequisites, on the other hand results and creations of the capitalist process of production; they are produced and reproduced by it.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i>, Vol. III, Ch. 48 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch48.htm">[2]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...Wakefield discovered that in the Colonies, property in money, means of subsistence, machines, and other means of production, does not as yet stamp a man as a capitalist if there be wanting the correlative — the wage-worker, the other man who is compelled to sell himself of his own free-will. He discovered that <b>capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons</b>, established by the instrumentality of things. Mr. Peel, he moans, took with him from England to Swan River, West Australia, means of subsistence and of production to the amount of £50,000. Mr. Peel had the foresight to bring with him, besides, 3,000 persons of the working-class, men, women, and children. Once arrived at his destination, “Mr. Peel was left without a servant to make his bed or fetch him water from the river.” Unhappy Mr. Peel, who provided for everything except the export of English modes of production to Swan River!</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Karl Marx, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm"><i>Das Kapital</i>, Vol. I, Ch. 33</a>, courtesy of www.marxists.org</cite></div></blockquote> <p>(In other words, the English relations of production did not exist in Australia; there was no system of property rights and legal obligations and no economic necessity compelling workers to work for their boss. The servants therefore could leave Mr. Peel in order to find work or occupy free land to make a better living.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definitions">Definitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Definitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Social_relation" title="Social relation">social relation</a> can be defined, in the first instance, as </p> <ul><li>a relation between individuals insofar as they belong to a group, or</li> <li>a relation between groups, or</li> <li>a relation between an individual and a group</li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Group_(sociology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group (sociology)">group</a> could be an <a href="/wiki/Ethnic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic">ethnic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Kinship" title="Kinship">kinship</a> group, a social <a href="/wiki/Institution" title="Institution">institution</a> or <a href="/wiki/Organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Organisation">organisation</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">social class</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Nation" title="Nation">nation</a> or <a href="/wiki/Gender" title="Gender">gender</a> etc. </p><p>A social relation is therefore not simply identical with an interpersonal relation or an individual relation, although all these types of relations presuppose each other. A social relation refers to a common social characteristic of a group of people. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">Society</a></i> for Marx is <i>the sum total of social relations connecting its members</i>. </p><p>Social <i>relations of production</i> in Marx's sense refer to </p> <ul><li>(often legally encoded) ownership and control relations pertaining to society's productive assets,</li> <li>the way people are formally and informally associated within the economic sphere of production, including as social classes,</li> <li>co-operative work relations (including household labor),</li> <li>socio-economic dependencies between people arising from the way they produce and reproduce their existence,</li> <li>relationships between different worksites or production sites</li> <li>the quantitative proportions of different aspects of the sphere of production, considered from the point of view of society as a whole.</li></ul> <p>The totality of social relations of production constitute the social structure of the economy, which according to Marx determine how incomes, products and assets will be distributed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social/technical_distinction_and_reification"><span id="Social.2Ftechnical_distinction_and_reification"></span>Social/technical distinction and reification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Social/technical distinction and reification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Combined with the <a href="/wiki/Productive_forces" title="Productive forces">productive forces</a>, the relations of production constitute a historically specific <a href="/wiki/Mode_of_production" title="Mode of production">mode of production</a>. Karl Marx contrasts the <a href="/wiki/Social_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Social relations">social relations</a> of production with the <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technical</a> relations of production; in the former case, it is people (subjects) who are related, in the latter case, the relation is between people and objects in the physical world they inhabit (those objects are, in the context of production, what Marx calls the "means of labor" or <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a>). </p><p>However, Marx argues that with the rise of <a href="/wiki/Market_economy" title="Market economy">market economy</a>, this distinction is increasingly obscured and distorted. In particular, a cash economy makes it possible to define, symbolise and manipulate relationships between things that people make in abstraction from the social and technical relations involved. Marx says this leads to the <a href="/wiki/Reification_(Marxism)" title="Reification (Marxism)">reification</a> (thingification or <i>Verdinglichung</i>) of economic relations, of which <a href="/wiki/Commodity_fetishism" title="Commodity fetishism">commodity fetishism</a> is a prime example. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The community of men, or the manifestation of the nature of men, their mutual complementing the result of which is species-life, truly human life—this community is conceived by political economy in the form of exchange and trade. Society, says <a href="/wiki/Antoine_Destutt_de_Tracy" title="Antoine Destutt de Tracy">Destutt de Tracy</a>, is a series of mutual exchanges. It is precisely this process of mutual integration. Society, says Adam Smith, is a commercial society. Each of its members is a merchant. It is seen that political economy defines the estranged form of social intercourse as the essential and original form corresponding to man's nature.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Karl Marx, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htm">Notes on James Mill</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>The marketplace seems to be a place where all people have free and equal access and freely negotiate and bargain over deals and prices on the basis of civil equality. People will buy and sell goods without really knowing where they originated or who made them. They know that objectively they depend on producers and consumers somewhere else, that this social dependency exists, but they do not know who specifically those people are or what their activities are. Market forces seem to regulate everything, but what is really behind those market forces has become obscured, because the social relationship between people or their relation with nature is expressed as a commercial relationship between things (money, commodities, capital) (see also <a href="/wiki/Value-form" title="Value-form">value-form</a>). </p><p>Some social relations of production therefore exist in an objective, mind-independent way, not simply because they are a natural necessity for human groups, but because of the mediation of social and technical relations by commerce. In addition to creating new social and technical relations, commerce introduces a proliferation of relationships between tradeable 'things'. Not only do relationships between 'things' (commodities, prices etc.) begin to indicate and express social and technical relations, the commercial relations also begin to govern and regulate the pattern of human contact and technique. </p><p>The fact therefore that particular social relations of production acquire an objective, mind-independent existence may not be due to any natural <a href="/wiki/Need" title="Need">necessity</a> asserting itself but only to a purely social necessity: <a href="/wiki/Commodity" title="Commodity">commodity</a> exchange objectifies social relations to the point where they escape from conscious human control, and exist such that they can be recognised only by abstract thought. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relations_of_distribution">Relations of distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Relations of distribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the theoretical problems in <a href="/wiki/Marxian_economics" title="Marxian economics">Marxian economics</a> is to distinguish exactly between <i>relations of production</i> and <i>relations of distribution</i>, determining the significance of each in the allocation of resources. According to the crudest and most vulgar interpretations of <i>Das Kapital</i>, <a href="/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour" title="Exploitation of labour">exploitation</a> occurs only at the point of production. Marx himself obviously did not assert this at all, he only postulated the command over the <a href="/wiki/Surplus_labour" title="Surplus labour">surplus labour</a> of others as the basis of the existence of capital and its <a href="/wiki/Economic_power" title="Economic power">economic power</a>. </p><p>Marx discusses the theoretical problem in two main places: the introduction to the <i><a href="/wiki/Grundrisse" title="Grundrisse">Grundrisse</a></i> manuscript and in chapter 51 of <i>Das Kapital</i>. In the <i>Grundrisse</i>, where he defines the total <a href="/wiki/Economy" title="Economy">economy</a> to include production, <a href="/wiki/Circulation_(currency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Circulation (currency)">circulation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Distribution_(economics)" title="Distribution (economics)">distribution</a> and consumption (similar to <a href="/wiki/James_Mill" title="James Mill">James Mill</a>), he raises the following question: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In society... the producer's relation to the product, once the latter is finished, is an external one, and its return to the subject depends on his relations to other individuals. He does not come into possession of it directly. Nor is its immediate appropriation his purpose when he produces in society. Distribution steps between the producers and the products, hence between production and consumption, to determine in accordance with social laws what the producer's share will be in the world of products. Now, does distribution stand at the side of and outside production as an autonomous sphere?</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Karl Marx, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm">Grundrisse</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>He answers his own question negatively: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The structure [German: <i>Gliederung</i>] of distribution is completely determined by the structure of production. Distribution is itself a product of production, not only in its object, in that only the results of production can be distributed, but also in its form, in that the specific kind of participation in production determines the specific forms of distribution, i.e. the pattern of participation in distribution.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Karl Marx, Grundrisse</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Disagreeing with <a href="/wiki/David_Ricardo" title="David Ricardo">David Ricardo</a>, who regarded <i>distribution</i> as the proper object of study for economics, Marx argues that the mode of production largely <i>determines</i> the mode of distribution: the <i>source</i> of income and products in production, and their <i>distribution</i> among the population must be analysed within one framework: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>In the shallowest conception, distribution appears as the distribution of products, and hence as further removed from and quasi-independent of production. But before distribution can be the distribution of products, it is: (1) the distribution of the instruments of production, and (2), which is a further specification of the same relation, the distribution of the members of the society among the different kinds of production. ... To examine production while disregarding this internal distribution within it is obviously an empty abstraction; while conversely, the distribution of products follows by itself from this distribution which forms an original moment of production.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Karl Marx, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch01.htm">Grundrisse</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>In the last chapters of <i>Das Kapital</i> Vol 3, he develops the argument, defining relations of distribution as the "forms" which "express the relationships in which the total value newly produced is distributed among the owners of the various agents of production" (as income and products). </p><p>His critique of political economy in this regard was (1) that relations of production or distribution are posited as "natural and eternal" rather than as historically specific relations, (2) that forms of distribution of income and products are crucially determined by <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> relations pertaining to productive assets; (3) that by constantly reproducing the relations of production, the mode of production of capital also reproduces the relations of distribution corresponding to it. </p><p>Late in his life, Marx touches on the issue again: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Any distribution whatever of the means of consumption is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves. The latter distribution, however, is a feature of the mode of production itself. The capitalist mode of production, for example, rests on the fact that the material conditions of production are in the hands of nonworkers in the form of property in capital and land, while the masses are only owners of the personal condition of production, of labor power. If the elements of production are so distributed, then the present-day distribution of the means of consumption results automatically. If the material conditions of production are the co-operative property of the workers themselves, then there likewise results a distribution of the means of consumption different from the present one. Vulgar socialism (and from it in turn a section of the democrats) has taken over from the bourgeois economists the consideration and treatment of distribution as independent of the mode of production and hence the presentation of socialism as turning principally on distribution. After the real relation has long been made clear, why retrogress again?<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism_of_Marx's_concept"><span id="Criticism_of_Marx.27s_concept"></span>Criticism of Marx's concept</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Criticism of Marx's concept"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-One_source plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-one_source" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies largely or entirely on a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_with_a_single_source" title="Wikipedia:Articles with a single source">single source</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Relations_of_production" title="Talk:Relations of production">talk page</a>. Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relations_of_production&action=edit">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">introducing citations to additional sources</a>.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Relations+of+production%22">"Relations of production"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Relations+of+production%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Relations+of+production%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Relations+of+production%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Relations+of+production%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Relations+of+production%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>It is frequently objected by Weberian sociologists (those in the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a>) that Marx paid insufficient attention to the <i>intersubjective</i> dimension of social relations, i.e. the meanings consciously attached by people to their social interactions. </p><p>However, Marx's argument is that these subjective or intersubjective meanings permit of infinite variations, and therefore cannot be the foundation for a genuine science of society. Individual meanings depend on shared meanings, and these shared meanings arise out of objective circumstances which exist independently of individuals. So one must begin with understanding those objective interdependencies which by necessity shape and socialise human beings, i.e. those social relations which people as social beings must enter into, regardless of what they may think or wish. </p><p>In this context, the young <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> commented: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Hitherto, sociologists had found it difficult to distinguish the important and the unimportant in the complex network of social phenomena (that is the root of <a href="/wiki/Subjectivism" title="Subjectivism">subjectivism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociology</a>) and had been unable to discover any objective criterion for such a demarcation. <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">Materialism</a> provided an absolutely objective criterion by singling out "production relations" as the structure of society, and by making it possible to apply to these relations that general scientific criterion of recurrence whose applicability to sociology the subjectivists denied. So long as they confined themselves to ideological social relations (i.e., such as, before taking shape, pass through mans consciousness)—we are, of course, referring all the time to the consciousness of social relations and no others—they could not observe recurrence and regularity in the social phenomena of the various countries, and their science was at best only a description of these phenomena, a collection of raw material. The analysis of material social relations (i.e., of those that take shape without passing through mans consciousness: when exchanging products men enter into production relations without even realising that there is a social relation of production here)—the analysis of material social relations at once made it possible to observe recurrence and regularity and to generalise the systems of the various countries in the single fundamental concept: social formation. It was this generalisation alone that made it possible to proceed from the description of <a href="/wiki/Social" title="Social">social</a> phenomena (and their evaluation from the standpoint of an <a href="/wiki/Ideal_(ethics)" title="Ideal (ethics)">ideal</a>) to their strictly scientific analysis, which isolates, let us say by way of example, that which distinguishes one capitalist country from another and investigates that which is common to all of them... Then, however, Marx, who had expressed this hypothesis in the forties, set out to study the factual (nota bene) material. He took one of the social-economic formations—the system of commodity production—and on the basis of a vast mass of data (which he studied for not less than twenty five years) gave a most detailed analysis of the laws governing the functioning of this formation and its development."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>In fact, Marx devotes a great amount of attention in <i>Das Kapital</i> to explaining why economic relations appear in human consciousness in the way that they do, and why they might appear in a different way than they really are. </p><p>Another sort of criticism, from economists, consists of the observation that processes of distribution (of products and income) can to a considerable extent develop <i>independently</i> or autonomously from what happens in production, with the aid of a developed credit system. </p><p>In fact, gross distortions between value added in production, and the distribution of products and incomes, might occur—for example, as a result of <a href="/wiki/Underdevelopment" title="Underdevelopment">underdevelopment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">state</a> intervention, <a href="/wiki/Unequal_exchange" title="Unequal exchange">unequal exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fictitious_capital" title="Fictitious capital">fictitious capital</a>, <a href="/wiki/Credit_bubble" class="mw-redirect" title="Credit bubble">credit bubbles</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Capital_gains" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital gains">capital gains</a> from rising property values. </p><p>That is, a society or region might get much more or much less income than the value of what it produces. 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