Dictionary

mode of production en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Produktionsweise.

Meanings

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.
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 2014 November 2, Paul Mason, “What Shakespeare taught me about Marxism”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Synonyms

MOP

Translations (13)

pt modo de produção (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · ru спо́соб произво́дства (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · ro mod de producție (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · cmn 生產方式 /生产方式 (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · fi tuotantotapa (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · es modo de producción (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · hu termelési mód (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · de Produktionsweise (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · pa ਉਤਪਾਦਨ ਦੇ ਢੰਗ (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · el τρόπος παραγωγής (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · ka წარმოების ხერხი (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · sv produktionssätt (combination of productive forces and relations of production) · vi phương thức sản xuất (combination of productive forces and relations of production)