Original scientific paper

Marx about the Productive Force of Science

Boris Sisek ; Ekonomski fakultet Zagreb, Trg J. F. Kennedya 6

Abstract

Aim of this paper is to explain Marx’s treating of science as a productive force. Such a task has necessarily forced upon the necessity to define,, preliminary, Marx's definition of science, and the way of his research. Analyzing Marx’s attitudes about science as a productive force, we are arriving at two conclusions: a) in the history science is not independent variable; it is closely connected with the material conditions of the human society as well as the changing needs of the production b) an important role in the development of the productive forces, science acquires just at the definite stage in the development of human society — not until the complete acknowledgment of the capitalist production.
Technological base in the form of the developed machine industry (producing machines by means of machines) characterizing capitalism, has made possible the wide use of scientific comprehensions in the process of production. Technological dynamics, characterizing capitalist has been caused by the principal motive of the capitalist production — forming of the relative surplus value (lessening of the necessary business hours in order to increase the surplus of class business hour), that is to say, profit. Forming of the relative surplus value is possible only by a constant growth of productivity in other words, by a constant revolutionizing of the productive forces. In this way, only with the development of capitalism, science begins to contribute systematically to the development of the productive forces. The work itself, and its quantity become an inferior moment in relation to the technological use of science Marx concludes that »changing of the production process from a simple working process into a scientific one« is a historic tendency in the development of productive forces. Such a development of the productive forces has its consequences on the relations in the production, so that they must comprise characteristics opposite to the capital relation.

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Hrčak ID:

156315

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156315

Publication date:

30.9.1975.

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