The one of Mode of production is a present and particular concept of the Marxist theory.
Mode by which goods and services necessary for human life are produced
The Marxism or Marxist theory is the name given to the series of philosophical ideas and doctrines of a political nature that were proposed and promoted by the German philosopher Karl Marx.
According to Marx's vision, the mode of production designates the social way in which the goods and services that are considered necessary for the life of human beings are produced, manufactured.
Meanwhile, the production mode will combine, on the one hand, the productive forces , represented by the human workforce and by the technological knowledge of the means of production such as tools, machinery, materials, among others.
And the production relations which include ownership, power and control by those who hold the production resources.
For Marx the faculty of production and social relations were two basic and differential conditions of human beings.
For a person to survive in society, it is necessary for them to consume, while that consumption will imply production and it is precisely at this point that those who consume with those who produce come together.
On the other hand, Marx, considered that the social order is closely linked with the existing mode of production in the society in question and also with the distribution of income and consumption itself.
How it is produced will tell us a lot about the distribution of wealth and consumption that exists in that society.
Regarding the structure of a society, it will not be in relation to men, their ideas, the state, not even the law, but it will be the mode of production that establishes the characteristics and structure of the community. .
The modes of production through time: socialism versus capitalism
Meanwhile, if the mode of production changes, something that is likely to happen when the forces of production confront relations, everything will change, politics, economy, religion, art, culture, among others. and it will give way to the revolution.
In ancient times, back in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, when social organizations began to emerge, the production force was minimal, while ownership of the productive means belonged to everyone and the distribution of the production that was carried out from them it tended to equality and balance; only the satisfaction of needs was sought.
And on the other hand, it cannot be ignored that in those times men cooperated with each other, since they lived from fishing, gathering, or hunting, and what they obtained from these activities was normally shared with the community to which they belonged. .
In these times, women played a fundamental role since they were in charge of the distribution of what was produced and, for each case, they had a political and economic relevance, giving rise to what is known as matriarchy.
With the passing of the centuries and the advances that have taken place in all areas, the capitalist system has been imposed and with it the paid workers who do not own the means of production appeared, while these belong to private hands, which are the ones that contract. these workers to provide their services in exchange for a salary and produce goods with their means of production.
Socialism emerged as the opposite of Capitalism, it promoted that the distribution of wealth be more egalitarian and that there was no private ownership of the means of production, only in this way can the social inequality that capitalism naturally produces can be counteracted.
In some way, Socialism proposes a return to those initiatory forms of the Palaeolithic and Neolithic where cooperation and help among all prevailed and the means of production were not of an elite but of the entire community that used them to satisfy their needs and subsist .
Harmony in relationships was a reality in these times and there was not, as in capitalism, an exploitation of man towards another man, only what was necessary for everyone was produced and nothing else.
