Essays on Productive Forces

Issues in East Asian Studies

Deng Xiaoping is the Chinese revolutionary and politician, unofficially – he is the head of the country. This man became known throughout the world due to his political and economic ideas. He played a very important role in the development of the country. Since the late 1970s and the early 1990s, he proclaimed the policy of economic reform and the building of socialism with the "Chinese characteristics." During his campaign, the Celestial Empire became a strong and developed state. He put forward the idea of ​​China and Taiwan's unification on the principle of "one country – two systems". In the world, ...

The concept of economic development is the expanded reproduction and gradual qualitative and structural positive changes in the economy, productive forces, factors of growth and development, education, science, culture, level and quality of life, human capital. Speaking about economic development as a process, it should be understood that it is characterized not by directness of its motion, but lack of uniformity, i. e. the periods of growth and recession are inevitable. It means an increase in the scale of the total production and consumption in the country, which is characterized above all by such macro-economic indicators as gross national ...

Question 1

Discuss in detail, from the Manifesto of the Communist Party how the social relations of production will become a fetter or obstacle to the continued development of the means of production. Make sure to use specific quotes from the Manifesto to support your discussion. According to the concept of social relations, means of production can be privately or publicly owned depending on the order established in a society. For Marx and Engels (1848), capitalistic structure suggests concentration of means of production at the hands of bourgeoisie and continuous exploitation of working class while socialism presupposes public ownership of the means ...