Abstract
’social relation of production’ is a key term in Marx’s theory of history, for the social relations of production of a society give that society its fundamental character and make it, for example, a capitalist rather than some other kind of society.1 In Marx’s words: The social relations within which [humans] produce, the social relations of production [gesellschaftliche Produktionsverhältnisse]... in their totality form what are called social relations, society, and specifically a society at a determinate historical stage of development, a society with a peculiar, distinctive character. Ancient society, feudal society, bourgeois society are such totalities of relations of production, each of which at the same time denotes a special stage of development in the history of mankind.2
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