Mode of production
The mode of production of a society is the sum total of everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life. A mode of production has two main characteristics: its forces of production and its relations of production. Together these form the material base of this society. When the contradictions between productive forces and relations become too severe, there is an eventual breaking point in the form of a social revolution which overthrows the ruling class of the mode of production.[1]
Modes of production
Primitive communism
Slavery
Feudalism
Capitalism
Socialism
See also
References
- ↑ Karl Marx (1859). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Preface. Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.