...adequately treated here. Note however, that if we take the 'major' contradiction in a social formation to be the contradiction between the relations of production and the forces of production, and if we take this 'contradiction' to consist in the fact that the relations of production fetter...

...arrive at the claim that capitalism leads to systematic underutilization of productive potential. Since the contradiction between the relations of production and the forces of production is the subject of an enormous literature, most of which recently has concerned GA Cohen's magisterial...

...obvious importance of labor to human social life in general.17 In the Grundrisse, Marx's analysis of the contradiction between the "relations of production" and the "forces of production" in capitalism differs from that of traditional Marxist theories, which focus on the mode of distribution...

...in Marxism: its lack of a theory of subjective commitment to action. "We must not overlook the fact that the contradiction between the relations of production and the forces of production that occurs when the forces develop is at the same time the occasion for the possibility of rebellion...