mode of production

English

Etymology

Calque of German Produktionsweise.

Noun

mode of production (plural modes of production)

1. (Marxism) A combination of productive forces such as labour power and means of production, and social and technical relations of production such as property, power, laws and regulations, etc.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) MOP

   • 1887, Karl Marx, translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Frederick [i.e., Friedrich] Engels, Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production: Translated from the Third German Edition, volume I, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., […], →OCLC, part I (Commodities and Money), page 1:

     The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity.

   • 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But once you understand what a “mode of production” is the meaning becomes clear. What you are watching is the collapse of feudalism and the emergence of early capitalism.

Translations

combination of productive forces and relations of production

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生產方式／生产方式 (zh) (shēngchǎn fāngshì)

• Finnish: tuotantotapa (fi)
• Georgian: წარმოების ხერხი (c̣armoebis xerxi)
• German: Produktionsweise f
• Hungarian: termelési mód
• Portuguese: modo de produção m
• Romanian: mod de producție (ro) n
• Russian: спо́соб произво́дства (ru) m (spósob proizvódstva)
• Spanish: modo de producción m
• Vietnamese: phương thức sản xuất