relations of production are what they are because they are functional for — they serve to develop — productive forces. social change consists of change in social relations of production. But its function is to promote changes in material relations and pro.

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A proposed third approach, “social‒functional primacy,” focuses on the correspondence between advancing human power over nature, on the one hand, and the changing requirements for reproducible systems of exploitation—incentive, coercion, and control—on the other.

Mandan social theorists often claim that the development of the forces of production is the major factor in accounting for the. long-run dynamics of history, and that these forces have primacy over the relations of production.1 This is the traditional diesis of historical materialism, or the materialistic theory of history. The.

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