...the social forces of production and the relations of production. [5] No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is...production never appear before the material conditions of theit existence have matured in the womb of the old society. Therefore, mankind always sets for itself...

...showing how the old mode of production gives rise to forces that lead to its own supersession: "Newer, higher relations of production never appear before...existence have matured in the womb of the old society." 214 "For the first time in the history of ideas we encounter a theory which combines the evolutionary...

...in the most mature capitalist countries, based on his dictum that "No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed.'"' Mature capitalism would, on the one hand, provide the technological and organizational...

...— is followed by the famous caveat pronounced as a universal rule: No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions...