> CB: Doesn't _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ make it > pretty clear that Marx's theory of history is rooted in the > relations of production aspect of the forces of production, > the division of labor, and the class struggle ? History is a > history of class struggles, not technological innovations. > Since producers are part of the forces of production , it is > their development that is in the forces of production that > makes history, and historical revolutions.
One of the problems is that the categories "relations of production" and "forces of production" overlap. The division of labor, for example, is both a relationship among producers (part of the RofP) and promotes the productivity of labor (part of the FoP). JD
