Production and Reproduction

Chapter 4: Production and Reproduction

The capitalist mode of production and, indeed, all economic systems involve not only production but reproduction. What is the difference between production and reproduction? Let’s take any factory — for example, a garment shop that specializes in belt production. In order to produce the belts, the boss — industrial capitalist — needs workers, a building, raw materials in the form of leather, electricity to run the shop’s machines and provide lighting, and so on. The industrial capitalist then must combine these forces of production to produce the belts. This is an example of production.

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