ABSTRACT
We begin, then, with the following conceptual scheme for unpacking 'relations of production' which, it may be noted, is understood in what Wolpe calls its 'extended' sense in order to capture as many analytical elements as possible.5 The relations of production in socialist agriculture may be said to be comprised of six elements:
(1) Ownership of the forces of production, which in turn has several distinct aspects: formal or juridical ownership (as codified in law and legal documents); what I will call actual ownership (the capacity to alienate the property or to realise income merely from owning it - by renting it, leasing it, using it as collateral, etc.); and what I will call practical ownership or, more simply, possession (the capacity to use the property in productive activity unencumbered by competing claims of formal or actual owners, as for example, in Yugoslavian selfmanaged enterprises).
