Sentence examples for The productive forces from inspiring English sources

The productive forces are the means of production, together with productively applicable knowledge: technology, in other words.

"The productive forces are starting up again, production is recovering," Mr Moscovici told French radio.

Speaking on RTL Radio, Moscovici blamed one-off factors such as slowing aircraft orders (the Paris Air Show, in June, typically delivers a boost to industry), saying: The productive forces are starting up again, production is recovering We knew the third quarter would mark a pause, it's not a surprise, it's not an indicator of decline, it's not a recession.

But in Marx's account, conflict occurs when the productive forces outgrow the relations of production (1845, 196).

Over the long run, the productive forces determine other aspects of the society, starting with the relations of production, the informal and formal rules that define and regulate property (1845, 151).

Social structures were transient historic forms determined by the productive forces: "The handmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steammill, society with the industrial capitalist".

Reviews of theories of performativity and empirical studies of the language of design show a connection between what is said and written about design/ing and the productive force of language.

In any case, the philosophical or Romantic notion of nature as an unfathomable unity and creative force which cannot be seen nor touched, and which is obviously a direct response to some of the many questions raised by Kant's three Critiques, is not to be understood as a mere intellection, an empty chimera: Nature is the productive force pulsing in all living beings.

The congress looks set to enshrine a change to its constitution which lays down that the party exists to represent not just the proletariat but also the "advanced productive forces"—Communist jargon for capitalists.

First, with the idea that human individuals are merely one of the sites at which the contradictory productive forces that characterize an era are enacted, Althusser signals that the primary object of social philosophy is not the human individual.

Stressing Marx's time in both Berlin and Paris, he frames Marxian communism as an elemental response to the incredible productive forces unleashed by the industrial revolution.