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	Capitalist mode of production - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capitalist mode of production is a concept in Karl Marx’s critique of political economy.
		In what he calls the “specifically capitalist mode of production”, both the technology worked with and the social organization of labour have been completely refashioned and reshaped in a commercial (profit and market-oriented) way; the “old ways of producing” (for example, crafts and cottage industries) have been completely displaced by modern industrialism.
		A society, region or nation is “capitalist” if the predominant source of incomes and products being distributed is capitalist activity; even so, this does not yet mean necessarily that the capitalist mode of production is dominant in that society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production (1855 words)

	Mode of production - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The socialist mode of production is meant to be a society based on workers' control of all production, with a property form equating consumption with productive labour.
		The enhanced productivity of the productive force of the internet for software programming and white collar work is combined with the relation of production indicated in the property form of the GNU GPL or GNU FDL, to produce a highly valuable form of economic production outside of the direct control of capitalism.
		A capitalist society was a society in which the capitalist mode of production had become the dominant one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mode_of_production (1759 words)

	Capital Vol. I — Chapter Twenty-Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		That is the consequence of the increasing productivity of labour.
		The increase of the latter appears, therefore, in the diminution of the mass of labour in proportion to the mass of means of production moved by it, or in the diminution of the subjective factor of the labour-process as compared with the objective factor.
		The production of a relative surplus-population, or the setting free of labourers, goes on therefore yet more rapidly than the technical revolution of the process of production that accompanies, and is accelerated by, the advance of accumulation; and more rapidly than the corresponding diminution of the variable part of capital as compared with the constant.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm (16533 words)

	Tc14English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With no presupposition to be reproduced, communism is not a mode of production; it is not even a society in the sense of a totality encompassing the relations that individuals define among themselves in their singularity.
		This existence as a class of the capitalist mode of production thus reduces itself to political and union mediations (this is the approach of the ultra-left).
		Capitalist production, therefore, of itself reproduces the separation between labour-power and the means of labour.
	www.theoriecommuniste.org /TC14English.html (5799 words)

	Learn more about Karl Marx in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Together these comprise the mode of production; Marx observed that within any given society the mode of production changes, and that European societies had progressed from a feudal mode of production to a capitalist mode of production.
		According to Marx, a capitalist mode of production developed in Europe when labor itself became a commodity -- when peasants became free to sell their own labor-power, and needed to sell their own labor because they no longer possessed their own land or tools necessary to produce.
		mode of production, class, commodity fetishism) to understand capitalist and other societies, or to describe those who believe that a worker's revolution is the only means to a communist society.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /k/ka/karl_marx.html (3394 words)

	Karl Kautsky: Economic Doctrines of Marx (Pt.3, Ch.7) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This mode of production was supplanted by the simple commodity production of private workers, working independently of each other, each of whom created products with means of production which belonged to himself, and it goes without saying that these products were the his private property.
		Thereafter the productivity of labour was enormously increased by the capitalist mode of production, which unchained and carried to the highest pitch all those productive forces which are marked by social, deliberately-organised labour, which enlist in their service the natural forces subjugated by science.
		But the more the capitalist mode of production gains the upper hand, the more the mass of the people consists of wage-workers, and the more, therefore, they are excluded from the fruits of the augmented productivity of their labour.
	www.marxists.org /archive/kautsky/1903/economic/ch20.htm (1634 words)

	Mode of production -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A mode of production is historically distinctive for Marx because it constitutes an 'organic totality' (or self-reproducing whole) which is capable of constantly re-creating its own initial conditions, and thus perpetuate itself in a more or less stable way for centuries, or even millenia.
		When new productive forces or new social relations develop that conflict with the existing mode of production, this mode of production will either evolve without losing its basic structure, or else begin to break down.
		An example of a mode of production which is lying dormant alongside capitalism, is the prefiguring form of socialism indicated by the (Click link for more info and facts about free software movement) free software movement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mode_of_production.htm (1514 words)

	Capitalist mode of production Online Research :: Information about Capitalist mode of production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The capitalist mode of production is a concept in Karl Marx âs critique of political economy.
		In what he calls the âspecifically capitalist mode of productionâ, both the Technology worked with and the social Organization of labour have been completely refashioned and reshaped in a Commercial (Profit and Market -oriented) way; the âold ways of producingâ (for example, Crafts and Cottage industries) have been completely displaced by modern industrialism.
		But it does mean that the concept of the capitalist Mode of production shouldn't be used indiscriminately in a vulgar way.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Capitalist_mode_of_production.html (1673 words)

	CHAPTER5
		In the pre-capitalistic mode private ownership of the means of production was far from universal and, to the extent that private property was recognized, it was qualified by a reciprocal pattern of rights and obligations along feudal lines.
		Moreover, the development of capitalist production makes it constantly necessary to keep increasing the amount of capital laid out in a given industrial undertaking, and competition makes the immanent laws of capitalist production to be felt by each individual capitalist, as external coercive laws.
		The capitalist mode of production, Marx maintained, required this outcome both to maintain the power position of capitalists and to ensure that an abundant labour supply would be available at subsistence wages.
	www.wesleyan.edu /css/readings/Barber/chapter5.htm (8301 words)

	Marx: Capital Vol. 3 Chapter 37 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We assume, then, that agriculture is dominated by the capitalist mode of production just as manufacture is; in other words, that agriculture is carried on by capitalists who differ from other capitalists primarily in the manner in which their capital, and the wage-labour set in motion by this capital, are invested.
		Just as the capitalist mode of production in general is based on the expropriation of the conditions of labour from the labourers, so does it in agriculture presuppose the expropriation of the rural labourers from the land and their subordination to a capitalist, who carries on agriculture for the sake of profit.
		The prerequisites for the capitalist mode of production therefore are the following: The actual tillers of the soil are wage labourers employed by a capitalist, the capitalist farmer who is engaged in agriculture merely as a particular field of exploitation for capital, as investment for his capital in a particular sphere of production.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch37.htm (7964 words)

	Talkinaboutinvolution
		This conditions the understanding of the statement that the capitalist mode of production is a transitory form of production.
		Science as a productive force (thus also wealth, as was already shown in the 1844 Manuscripts and in The German Ideology) is determined by the development of these forces and corresponds to the appearance of a large number of externalizations, a greater possibility to appropriate nature.
		Capital posits the production of wealth itself and hence the universal development of the productive forces, the constant overthrow of its prevailing presuppositions, as the presupposition of its reproduction.
	www.talkinaboutinvolution.org /showDocument.php?id_documento=7 (3491 words)

	Spring 1999
		The work of the capitalist goes under the name of “wages of superintendence of labor.” This gives rise to the idea that the profit of enterprise is a wage for supervising labor.
		The credit system is the vehicle for the transition beyond the capitalist mode of production just like usury was the vehicle for the transition beyond feudalism, but credit's relation to capitalist production is exactly opposite to usury's relation to feudal production.
		"This result of capitalist production in its highest development is a necessary point of transition towards the transformation of capital back into the property of the producers, though no longer as the private property of individual producers, but rather as their property as associated producers, as directly social property" (568).
	www.duke.edu /~hardt/THREE-5.htm (2183 words)

	A journal of protest and dissent
		Our starting point is the death agony of the capitalist mode of production.
		The capitalist social relations of production had already been a fetter on the development of the productive forces for some time, but that year the objective contradictions of the capitalist mode of production had reached a critical stage.
		The ICL can confidently assert that this "extra terrestrial mode of production" is what we call fully developed communism.
	lark.phoblacht.net /spoof1.html (436 words)

	The Marxian Vision, Part ii: The Critique of the Capitalist Mode of Production
		A particular mode of production was characterized by what Marx called the "forces of production," and the "relations of production." The forces of production include technological factors such as machinery and tools as well as natural resources and human capital (skills and knowledge).
		First, there are the capitalists and their managers, or what Marx called the "bourgoisie." Their identifying trait is that they own the capital equipment of society, the buildings, furniture, materials, and everything else needed to produce commodities (goods and services) for sale.
		What we know, for certain about the capitalist is that (unless the capitalist is the student's uncle, for example) he or she will be looking for one thing to emanate from the work of the student, and that thing is profit.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /gschnedr/marxweb.htm (13523 words)

	Chapter 5 Hi Tech, Low Pay[Sam Marcy]: (1986)
		While not invented in a period of capitalist development, the compass and other navigational instrumentation were appropriated from earlier modes of production by capitalist shipping companies at the very crest of the period of colonization, what is called the "age of discovery." It gave a tremendous impulse to world trade and commerce.
		Another and more flagrant contradiction was that one of the fundamental characteristics of the capitalist mode of production is wage slavery, which means a free proletarian, that is, a worker free to sell his or her labor on the capitalist market.
		Capitalist production and the extraction of surplus value in the interest of further capitalist accumulation is virtually impossible without a free working class, free to be exploited and oppressed, free to be unemployed.
	www.workers.org /marcy/cd/samtech/hitkhtml/chap5.htm (10520 words)

	Virtual management
		It orients managers more directly to the needs of a service economy - wherein "commodity" and "product" relations are no longer a source of sustainable competitive advantage, due to global competition or inability to predict liability.
		While seeking organisational effectiveness in the current capitalist mode of production, especially profit-making organisations are increasingly recognising the competitive advantage of concentrating on their core competences and outsourcing all or most of other operations.
		All this creates new kinds of interlinked networks of suppliers, buyers, producers and customers, where the factors of production are being acquired as conveniently as possible to make deliverables that can be seamlessly supplied to the people who need them, to where and when they need them.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/virtual_management (854 words)

	ipedia.com: Karl Marx Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to Marx, a capitalist mode of production developed in Europe when labor itself became a commodity — when peasants became free to sell their own labor-power, and needed to sell their own labor because they no longer possessed their own land or tools necessary to produce.
		Most scholars reject this claim for two reasons: first, it is based on two short essays written in the 1840s, and ignores the bulk of Marx's analysis of capitalism written in the following years.
		Henryk Grossmann, who elaborated the mathematical basis of Marx's 'law of capitalist breakdown', was another contemporary.
	www.ipedia.com /karl_marx.html (4460 words)

	commodity production and other commodities related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Producers should consider filing commodity production contract liens to protect themselves for what is owed them under the contract...
		The Laws of Commodity Production for Dummies is taken from The World for which We Fight (March 2004) which is part of the Anarcho-Leninist Debate on the State We need to understand how the world...
		Commodity Production Statistics In the area of industrial statistics, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is engaged in the...
	www.nethorde.com /commodities/commodity-production.html (312 words)

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