He says the party should represent "the advanced forces of production, advanced culture and the interests of the grass roots".
What he said was that the "advanced forces of production" in the "the primary stage of socialism" that China finds itself in does not just include workers.
New enterprises, like transplanted strands of DNA, will become the organizing matter of new commercial life, in this case, new forces of production that sustain wealth.
The most important consequence of the industrialization of capitalism was therefore its powerful effect on enhancing what Marx called "the forces of production"—the source of what is now called the standard of living.
Players can no more be separated from tactics than workers can be separated from, as Marx put it, "the relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production".
If Marx's opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject?
Mr. Jiang's answer has been to redefine Marxism itself and promote his theory of the "three represents" -- that the party must represent "the most advanced forces of production, the most advanced forces of culture and the fundamental interests of the broadest number of people".
According to Marx, material production requires two things: "material forces of production"—roughly, raw materials and the tools required to extract and process them and "social relations of production"—the division of labour through which raw materials are extracted and processed.
