Noun
mode of production (plural modes of production)
(Marxism) A combination of productive forces such as labour power and means of production, and social and technical relations of production such as property, power, laws and regulations, etc.
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. Herbert Marcuse
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. John Desmond Bernal
Only the dialectical conception of ... reality as a social process ... dissolves the fetishistic forms necessarily produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary. György Lukács
Our duty is not merely to abolish the capitalist order but to set up a higher order in its place. But we must oppose those forces aiming to destroy capitalism only in order to replace it with another barbarous mode of production. Karl Kautsky