WordaDay – Marxist Glossary Expanded 3.0 – Division of Labor

Division of labor: The social division of labor is the separation of the labor process into different tasks and spheres of work in the production of things, not only on a personal-biological level but on a broader social level. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on the division of labor between in […]

Engels Quote – Productive Relations and Legal System

At a certain, very primitive stage of the development of society, the need arises to coordinate under a common regulation the daily recurring acts of production, distribution and exchange of products, to see to it that the individual subordinates himself to the common conditions of production and exchange. This regulation, which is at first custom, […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary Mini 3.0 – Division of Labor

The social division of labor is the separation of society into different spheres of work, and on a broader social level, the separation of society into social/economic classes. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on biological sex, childbearing, and age groups, young and old. In primitive society productive activity was based on […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary Mini 3.0 – Emancipation of Women

Women were the first oppressed social group in human society, and planet-wide woman remains the “slave of a slave” and faces the greatest societal violence, murder, repression, insults and humiliations in every country. A determined, immediate and continuous struggle against material privilege, war and violence is not only morally correct but a precondition for the […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary 3.0 – Relations of Production

Relations of production are the connections between people and property, that is, the ownership pattern, in the process of production. The ownership pattern determines the placement and role of classes — exploited and exploiters — in the process of production. The process of production consists of the division of labor, stage of development of technology, […]