Productivity and production relations

The productive forces are the ability of people to actively transform the natural world and obtain material means of life from it, which represents the relationship between man and nature.

The productive forces resolve the contradiction between man and nature.

The relationships formed among people during the production process

Entity-level elements

Science and technology are the primary productive force.

The productive forces determine the production relations, what kind of productive forces there are, will give rise to what kind of production relations.

The condition of productivity determines the nature of the production relations.

Example 1: Primitive tools → Primitive society

Example 2: Bronze Ware → Slave Society

Example 3: Iron tools → feudal society

Example 4: Steam engine → capitalist society

The development of productivity determines the transformation of production relations.

Original tools → Bronze tools → Iron tools → Steam machines

Primitive society → slave society → feudal society → capitalist society

The relations of production exert a dynamic counteraction on the productive forces.

Denied the "moral preaching" as the thought system for judging the merits and demerits of historical events, for the first time scientifically established the development of productive forces as "the highest standard of social progress".

It is an important basis for Marxist political parties to formulate their lines, policies, and policies.

From the perspective of content, it summarizes the two aspects of the interaction between productive forces and production relations.

From the perspective of the process, this law manifests as the relationship between the mode of production and the productive forces always evolving from basically suitable to basically unsuitable, and then back to basically suitable.