ABSTRACT
It has been acknowledged that the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production is not limited to the simple material reproduction of the means of production as such (e.g. technical reproduction of machines, raw materials and land, and biological reproduction of labour force). Above all, capitalism is dependent on the reproduction of its typical pattern of social relations, i.e. the domination of capital over labour through a complicated interplay of forces, Social reproduction, however, does not occur without producing changes in the character of the dominant social relations. This excludes the idea of an automatic and historically uniform reproductive process internal to the CMP. Social reproduction is rooted in tendencies and contradictions, the dynamic processes which reproduce and at the same time change capitalist social relations.
