This law was first discovered by Marx and Engels and cited by Lenin in his article of 1894 which criticized the idealist views of Mikhailovsky. Stalin elaborated the law that the relations of production must fit the nature of the productive forces when he talked about the nature of economic laws under the socialist system, mainly in his works Dialectical and Historical Materialism in 1938 and Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. in 1952.
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