Relations of production

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches relations of production through Marx, distinguishing them from productive forces. He defines them as property relations: the same plough yields different societies depending on whether it belongs to the lord or to a cooperative1. Productive forces belong to economics, while relations of production add a political dimension to them. He also describes them as the form of which productive forces are the matter, and it is this form that defines the political system2. He draws a rule from this: it is not techniques that should be called into question, but the relations of production, that is, the question of whom they serve3. At first an expression of the productive forces, these relations eventually become fetters on them, and this contradiction opens an epoch of social revolution4. Superstructures and mentalities, for their part, change more slowly. As an example, he takes slavery: it explains the absence of Greek physics, because a relation between people blocks the relation to things5.

1. 1Dominique Pagani "Sur Marx"6 Oct 2018 · 50:26
2. 2#5.3 bis FaceBookLive / Questions13 Jan 2019 · 1:03:39
3. 3#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:50:24
4. 4Dominique Pagani "Sur Marx"6 Oct 2018 · 57:29
5. 59 #16 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?4 Mar 2021 · 1:41:13

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