Summarizing Marx’s analysis of the contradiction between ‘capitalist social relations’ and ‘the productive forces developed under capitalism’.
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Summarizing Marx’s analysis of the contradiction between ‘capitalist social relations’ and ‘the productive forces developed under capitalism’.
In Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G.A. Cohen quotes Marx from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) in one of the most useful epigraphs I’ve ever encountered. A full reproduction of the passage, and some small discussion.