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'''Productive forces''', '''productive powers''', or '''forces of production''' (German: ''Produktivkräfte'') is a central idea in [[Marxism]] and [[historical materialism]].
'''Productive forces''', '''productive powers''', or '''forces of production''' (German: ''Produktivkräfte'') is a central idea in [[Marxism]] and [[historical materialism]] which refers to the means of labor. (tools, machinery, infrastructure, etc.)  
 
In [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]' own critique of political economy, it refers to the combination of the means of labor(tools, machinery, land, infrastructure, and so on) with human labour power.
 
Together with the social and technical relations of production, the productive forces constitute a historically specific mode of production.
 
The productive forces are the unity of means of production and labour:
 
# All labour (individual, union)
# Instruments of production (buildings, machines)
# Subjects of production (raw materials, labor)


== Modern uses ==
== Modern uses ==

Revision as of 18:32, 13 April 2023

Productive forces, productive powers, or forces of production (German: Produktivkräfte) is a central idea in Marxism and historical materialism which refers to the means of labor. (tools, machinery, infrastructure, etc.)

Modern uses

While the definition of productive forces hasn't changed, it's become a popular term in recent decades as the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been emphasizing increasing their economy's productive forces in order to advance to higher stages of socialism, and eventually to the lofty ideal of communism, where there is immense material abundance.

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping, the former leader of China, wrote about the productive forces, writing about how the implementation of market socialism would help China to liberate and develop its productive forces.[1]

See also

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