Also known as “relations of production of society”. Social relations forged by men in the process of material production. Relations of production are the social form in which all factors of the productive forces are combined, i.e., the social form of the mode of production. Marx said that in the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. Among all social relations, the relations of production are the most fundamental. They are the relations of material interests among men, and determine other aspects of social relations such as politics and culture. The totality of the relations of production constitutes the economic base of society. In class society, the relations of production manifest themselves as class relations, and everyone is in a certain class relation…
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