means of production


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means of production

pl n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Marxist theory) the raw materials and means of labour (tools, machines, etc) employed in the production process

means of production

Raw materials and means of labor used in the production process.
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The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property.
We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society.
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
Sherman realizes that Marx's rigorous demarcation of classes by ownership of the means of production is hopelessly rigid; yet all he has to offer is "relational" analysis with no apparent logical structure or relation to Marx.
Benjamin quotes Brecht on the subject of the dialectic between the means of production and the work.
Take Suzhou City for example, it has set up a pesticide concentrated distribution system and applied it in government purchasing of agricultural means of production since 2010.
Remember, access to the means of production brings with it a responsibility.
Instead of working to get rid of wage slavery unions merely accept the authoritarianism of the big-business class to solely control the means of production, distribution and wealth.
Although he held out no hope "if it could achieve internationalism and the socialization of the means of production," he thought, it "might establlish a world which would not be a mass of automatic economic contradictions.
Communism: A system of government based on the idea that the state should own all land and means of production.
can and should seek the correction of all those elements which are harmful in the ownership of the means of production or in the way they are directed and administered.
During the Popular Front, for example, the talk about workers seizing the means of production and the bourgeoisie drowning in its own blood had given way to muted rhetoric that emphasized the CPUSA's congruity with America's own revolutionary pedigree.