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Marx , characterizing the categories “productive forces” and “relations of productions” , examined them not as some kind of phenomena which are outwardly inter connected , but as inseparable sides of the mode of production . Pointing to the dialectic unity of the productive forces and relations of production, Marx noted that this is “dialectics, the boundaries of which must be defined , and which does not destroys the real difference” . ¹From this proposition it follows that a scientific analysis of the categories “productive forces” and “relations of the production” is incompatible with both a mechanistic separation of these categories and their identification.
Marx, disclosing the contact of these categories “productive forces” and “relations of production” proceeded from the abstract to the concrete . Several stages of studies are single out in this process. The content of the categories at each new stage is changed , specified . This explains why in the works of the classical of Marxism –Leninism one and the same concepts (specifically the concepts “productive forces” and “relations of production”) are used in a different senses , depending on the stage of study at which they are used for characterising the object.
The Marxist doctrine abhors a metaphysical counter posing of the abstract of the concrete . We consider as an over- simplification the statement the Marxism rejects abstractions like “labour in general” , “Production in general” , and so on, as empty and meaningless. Such an idea can lead a confusion to violation of the logic of study , to ignoring the dialectical transition from one stage to another and, consequently and also to the incorrect interpretation of categories without considering the definite content each one has at one or another stage of study , the definite function it performs at each stage .
Marxism does not reject concepts of any degree of scientific abstraction . It only demands their proper use. One must not, for example, employ the concept “production in general” when concrete features of social production at a definite historical stage in its development reflected in the concept “mode of production” it is similarly impermissible to use concrete definitions which describe a definite mode of production when in question are more general features reflected the concept is incompatible with both raising a scientific abstraction to an absolute or ignoring it. Mistakes inevitably arise if the principle of the Marxist method is ignored in one or another way, the principal of transition from categories reflecting the more general features of an object to more concrete categories characterizing its specific features.

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The socio –economic formations which succeeded one another through out history differ above all the type of production relations characteristic of each of them .The communist formation differs from all its predecessors by qualitatively new relations of production the essence of which is already manifesto under socialism and increasingly reveals itself in the process of transition to communism .Socialism is the first phase in the development of the communist formation ; communism is a continuation of socialism , a development of the main socialist principals . That is why the production relations of communism are not a special type of production relations as compared with socialist but a development of the latter , a higher stage of their maturity .To disclose the laws governing the development of socialist relations of production into communist once it is necessary first of all the describe the main features , common for both phases of the communist formation . Let us begin , however ,by defining the meaning of the category “ relations of production” .

It will be recalled that the main categories used by Marxism – Leninism in analyzing a mode of production are “productivity forces” and “relations of production”. Study of the dialectics of these categories which would properly disclose there content is of great importance for the future elaboration of historical materialism as the methodology of the social science , economic science in particular .

Study of such social phenomena as labor , its division and organization, the organization of production and so on in historically concrete conditions is inconceivable with out considering the different sides of these phenomena ,without analyzing the interconnection of these sides .But it is these sides that are characterized by the categories “productive forces” and “relation of production” To reveal the dialectics of these categories is therefore of prime methodological significance not only for political economy , but also for all the social science which study the above phenomena .

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