CB: Yes, well this is a point of disagreement. Marx _does_ use mode of
production to mean a set of property relations. I said he uses the term in
more than one way, but one of them _is_ to specfically refer to property
relations. Sometimes, it is sort of a mixture with forces of production
Mode
CB: Note the last question is in recognition of the issue we are debating
here,usage of mode of production. And , yes, I know that Marx is ambiguous in
that usage. However, he does use it to refer to especially property relations
in one of those double usages, and that is the usage connected to
Communism - not socialism, is impossible unless one has the economic legs to
stand on or a revolution in the mode of production (not simply the property
relations) that destroys value by qualitatively reconfiguring the labor process
where the great mass of humanity's labor is not needed in the
