DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Structural Inequality, Newly Industrialized Country, Maoism
8 Apr 2016
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Means of production: the things" which are needed for people to produce goods. These in- clude tools and equipment, as well as land, crops and mineral reserves. Relations of production: the division of labour, i. e. who does what in the production process. Also includes who decides what is produced and how it is produced, so includes the possibility of unequal decision-making and power. This can be based on who owns the means of produc- tion. Mode of production: the system of social relations organizing production. This includes the relations of production, as well as the state apparatus and the legal system. It also includes cul- tural norms and ideologies about the way society should work. For marx, capitalism is characterized by two major divisions within society, the "bourgeoisie" who own the means of production, and the "proletariat" who do not. The only way that the proletariat can survive is to sell their labour, i. e. to work for a wage.
