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RE: Question to Various comments in In Digest 77

> 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
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