Karl Marx And The Productive Power - 1182 Words

Karl Marx believed that growth is driven by the progression of the productive power by human. This productive power was also the rise and fall of an economic structure according to how progression is supported and downcast. Marx suggest that through communism it is possible to eliminate the constraint that exploitation has on the society’s laborers. The mode of production involves the methods humans use to produce the resources to sustain the provision for survival and to improve society as a whole. The two components to the mode of production are the means of production (what is used) and the relation of production or property (labor, capital). The mode of production is the union of creative powers and the relations of production.†¦show more content†¦Feudalism The very definition of the term feudalism as it relates to the 19th century is that of a dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (serfs) were obliged to live on their lord s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. Thus, the feudalist mode of production was constructed on a mixture of the enormous landholdings belonging to the feudal lords and the lesser smallholdings of the direct makers, the serfs, who were misused by added economic restraint, as distinctive of feudalist power. This is a form of stratification. â€Å"Some Principles of Stratification† by Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore advocate that stratification is needed in order to make a society functional. The lords (upper class) have the power while the serfs (middle/lower class) tends to the labor. H owever, Max Webber’s â€Å"Class, Status, Party† defines stratification as taking something which is not yours to take. This is a justified cause to change the function of society. The lords demanded that the labor of the serfs be a right belonging to the lords. The mode of production under feudalism permitted the exploitation of labor by forcing the people to the very land that they worked and not rendering them the economic freedom they deserved. The downfall of feudalism was due to the