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    Recognition and Social Relations of Production Andrew Chitty “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." In Marx's words: ‘The social relations within which (humans) produce, the soci! relations of production [geselischafiliche Produktionverhdliise) .. i their totality form what are called socal relations, society, and specifically a society at @ ‘determinate historical stage of development, a society with @ peculiar, distinctive character. Ancient society, feudal society, bourgeois society are such totlites of relations of production, each of which a the same time denotes a special ‘tage of development in the history of mankind? For Marx the major institutions of a historical epoch — specifically its legal and political systems — are deeply conditioned by its social relations of production. In his metaphor from the 1859 Preface, the social relations of production form a ‘base’ and these institutions a ‘superstructure’ which arises out of i? Accordingly his general strategy for explaining these institutions is to show how the relations of production give rise to them. The base is explanans and the superstructure is explanandum, and to say that some aspect of socal life ‘belongs to the base ofthe superstructure is simply to say what its role is this conditioning process, and so in Marx’s explanation of socal institutions. However Mark never says in so many words just what social relations of production are, and the concept has been strongly criticised by non-Marxsts. In some places Marx appears to equate them with property relations: in Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality he Tak a gpg mesh ee et rte ca ese debs ho oon ree ited peta Cate ag ieee eat 9 thai ay Se Dab Fane el Meet rene Rise ea he Ran MS. we: aan 1s Se ca, he a Ariel tl nati a Ba an 8 SRE VATS: Moe QS pe, The catego SS SASSI he manson ote’ cnet ine atte ia MM ame tt SO aS A ee ee ce oe Mae OT aes istorical Materialism states that ‘private property .. consists in the totality of the bourgeois relations of production’. and in the 1859 Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy he says that property relations are ‘only a legal expression for’ relations of production. Yet if property relations are legal relations — and this is the most obvious way to understand them ~ then they cannot be identical with social relations of production, for the legal system is meant to be part of the superstructure of society, the character of which is explained by the relations of production, Legel property relations would have to make up the base and yet also belong to the superstructure. This difficulty has ‘been called the ‘problem of legality’ Problems like it have given rise to the criticism that the very idea of ‘social relations of production’ Marx is incoherent, or as Plamenetz put it, that i is ‘a phrase used not to express thought but to cover up its absence, and is therefore not to be rendered into meaningful English’? ‘The best-known Marxist response to the problem of legality is G.A. Cohen's in Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. Cohen

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