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productive forces

productive forces noun: the combination of means of labour and labour power which together with certain relations of production form a historically specific mode of production.

Noun

productive forces pl (plural only)

  1. (Marxism, plural, plural-only) The combination of means of labour and labour power which together with certain relations of production form a historically specific mode of production.
    • The productive forces of our country, especially in industry, were social in character, the form of ownership, on the other hand, was private, capitalistic. Relying on the economic law that the relations of production must necessarily conform with the character of the productive forces, the Soviet...1972 [1951], Joseph Stalin, “Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism”, in Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., Foreign Languages Press, retrieved 08 Jan 2024

productive forces meaning in Punjabi

productive forces in Punjabi

productive forces
ਪੈਦਾਵਾਰੀ ਤਾਕਤਾਂ paidāvārī tāktā̃

Origin of productive forces

Calque of German Produktivkräfte.

Questions about productive forces

What does productive forces mean?
Productive forces means the combination of means of labour and labour power which together with certain relations of production form a historically specific mode of production.
What is productive forces in Punjabi?
Productive forces in Punjabi is ਪੈਦਾਵਾਰੀ ਤਾਕਤਾਂ (paidāvārī tāktā̃). See Productive forces meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is productive forces?
Productive forces is a noun.

Words near productive forces in the dictionary

  1. productises
  2. productising
  3. productive
  4. productive efficiencies
  5. productive efficiency
  6. productive forces
  7. productively
  8. productiveness
  9. productivism
  10. productivisms
  11. productivist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: productive forces (page history and authors); ਪੈਦਾਵਾਰੀ ਤਾਕਤਾਂ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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