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The Violence of Abstraction by Derek Sayer (11992 words) |
 | Thus he avers that ‘productive forces strongly determine the character of the economic structure, while forming no part of it’, and in turn ‘the economic structure is separate from (and explanatory of) the superstructure’ (1978: 31, 218), all these entities being defined in empirical terms. |
| Productive forces are thus an attribute of human beings in association, their collective capacities, not a set of things as such at all. |
| On the contrary, when he says a force of production is a force of individuals he clearly intends that ‘force’ be understood as a power, an attribute, a characteristic, of those individuals in association — of social individuals — albeit a power which may frequently be materialised in things. |
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Productive forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1395 words) |
| Productive forces, "productive powers" or "forces of production" [in German, Produktivkräfte] is a central concept in Marxism and historical materialism. |
| Marx theorises productivity within the capitalist mode of production in terms of the social and technical relations of production, with the concept of the organic composition of capital and the value product. |
| Productive force determinism is then criticised on the ground that whatever technologies are adopted, these are the result of human choices between technical alternatives, influenced by the human interests and stakes existing at the time. |
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