Productive forces

The concept of productive forces comes from the Marxist economic theory. The productive forces include all natural, technical, organizational and intellectual and scientific resources available to the company in their mode of production and the relations of production laid down therein for easy and optionally expanded reproduction available. From classical economics - the forerunner of modern economics - is the much narrower and therefore not to be understood as a synonym term "factors " in the art.

The most important social productive forces in the narrower sense

In addition, include in the broad sense ( undeveloped ) Raw materials and energy sources as well as the infrastructure to the productive forces.

With the productive power of labor ...

• Explore, discover and develop working people the resources mentioned above.
• Plan, control and organize working people, the production, distribution and use of the above resources.
• Provide working people here work equipment and thus produce goods and services.
• Educate, teach, protect, heal and maintain working people, thus ensuring the social foundations for the development and deployment of the above resources.

Means of production and labor are part of the productive forces. They are figuratively capacitors that include labor and other in the production process recyclable potentials save until use. The working man, who acts in the production process as the primary force releases available in the work equipment and stored potential benefits, ie their productive forces.

Even commodities and software are part of the productive forces, if they are detected or developed as such and ready for use.

Extending the discovery of novel materials, new raw material deposits, and technical and organizational innovations and strengthen the productive forces of a society.