7.5 Antagonism: Antagonism is the basis of destruction and a form of transition to a new mode of production. It is a form of resolution of relations of production that have entered into collision with qualitatively changing productive forces. (see productive forces) In class society, the collision between qualitatively new productive forces and old relations of production, cannot be resolved based on the struggle between the two classes constituting the old relations of production. Resolution takes place outside - external, the contradiction that is the two classes constituting old relations of production. The external agent is the new classes connected to the new means of production. Resolution is negation by destruction of the two old classes and their property form.. "The bourgeois mode of production is the last antagonistic form of the social process of production – antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism but of an antagonism that emanates from the individuals' social conditions of existence – but the productive forces developing within bourgeois society create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism.(Marx). (see Dialectics: quantity, quality, the antagonistic element.)
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