PHIL 335 Study Guide - Final Guide: Class Conflict, Marxism, Proletariat
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Assuming every social formation comes from a dominant mode of production, you see that the process of production sets to work the existing productive forces in, and under definite relations of production. In order to exist, every social formation must reproduce the conditions of its production @ same time as it produces, in order to produce. Thus it is reproducing these 2 things: Every social formation must reproduce (1) the reproductive forces (mode of production, forces and relations of production) and (2) the existing relations of production at the same time as it reproduces itself (in order to reproduce itself) No production is possible which doesn"t allow for reproduction of material conditions of production: the reproduction of the means of production. Reproduction cannot be thought @ the level of the firm, b/c it doesn"t exist at that level in its real conditions. At level of firm, this is an effect.
