Productive forces in Karl Marx teaching

  • Vladimir P. Pashkov Institute of Agrarian Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 94 Moskovskaya Street, Saratov 410012, Russia

Abstract

The article deals with the content of the concept of productive forces in the main economic doctrine of K. Marx. The author criticizes the approach to its definitions as «system», «totality», «complex» of personal, subjective (human) and material (means of production) elements developed in economics. It is emphasized that the concept of force is a physical concept, it is included in the subject of theoretical physics. Productive force is a force (without its own definition) special, arising and operating in the sphere of material production only when the means of production are used by the working force. Definitions in textbooks, scientific papers that productive forces are tools of labour, means of production are erroneous.

Author Biography

Vladimir P. Pashkov, Institute of Agrarian Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 94 Moskovskaya Street, Saratov 410012, Russia

PhD (economics); leading researcher

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Published
2019-01-17
Keywords: productive forces, concept, forms, labour, tools, interaction
How to Cite
Pashkov, V. P. (2019). Productive forces in Karl Marx teaching. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 4-8. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/philosophy/article/view/1988
Issue
No 3 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology
Section
To the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of K. Marx

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