means of production
The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the…The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the subject of labor used by workers to make products.
Meaning
1 senses(Marxism, plural, plural only)The combination of the means of labor, such as machines, tools, and equipment, and the subject of labor used by workers to make products.
Produktionsmittel
сре́дство произво́дстваsrédstvo proizvódstva
за́соби виробни́цтваzásoby vyrobnýctva
Examples
6 sentencesI'd let Tom seize my means of production.
Tom doesn't want to seize the means of production.
In communism, the means of production are owned by the state.
ruПри коммунизме государство является владельцем средств производства. — odexed
deIm Kommunismus sind die Produktionsmittel Staatseigentum. — MUIRIEL
Communism aims for the abolition of private possession of the means of production.
Seize the means of production.
Translations
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Origin
In English by 1733 in Peter Shaw, The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Vol III, p. 52In English by 1733 in Peter Shaw, The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Vol III, p. 52, noted: "Observe, what has been fully explained in the Novum Organum; that to discover the Causes of Things, is finding the Means to produce them, whence Causes, and the Means of Production are convertible terms."
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Forms
plural: means of productions| Singular | means of production |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsSee also
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