生产关系从总体上组成经济结构。反过来说,马克思又把经济结构称为整个人类社会的“骨胳”、“实体”、“形态”或“基础”。尽管生产关系——经济结构这一范畴看起来是马克思的整个分析的理论关节点,但它的确切含义一百多年以来却一直是悬而未决的,有争议的。同马克思世界观中的所有基本范畴一样,马克思本人并没有正式下过一个定义。要从马克思的著作中引出这一范畴的定义是困 The relations of production generally constitute the economic structure. On the other hand, Marx again refers to the economic structure as the “skeleton”, “entity”, “form” or “basis” of the entire human society. Although the category of relations of production-economy appears to be the theoretical hinge of Marx’s entire analysis, its exact meaning has been unresolved and controversial for more than a hundred years. Like all the basic categories in Marx’s world outlook, Marx himself did not formally define it. To derive the definition of this category from Marx’s writings is stalemate