Complete the mechanism.
The forces of production develop, but the ______ of production are legally entrenched and defended by those who benefit. When they become a ______ on further development, the tension resolves through ______ into a new mode of production.
Word bank: relations · fetter · class struggle · superstructure · ideology
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- The mechanism runs from relations to constraint to conflict.
- It is an earlier dialectic rebuilt out of property relations.
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The forces of production develop, but the relations of production are legally entrenched and defended by those who benefit. When they become a fetter on further development, the tension resolves through class struggle into a new mode of production.
Relations, fetter, struggle. Hegel’s dialectic rebuilt out of property law. Read as a question it is powerful; read as a law it is Hegel’s problem all over again.
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