1 Production for the satisfaction of needs, and production for exchange In primitive society, and then within the village community born of the neolithic revolution, production was essentially based on the satisfaction of the needs of the productive collectivities. Exchange was only accidental, and affected only a tiny fraction of the products at the disposal … Continue reading Chapter 4 –  From Petty Commodity Production to the Capitalist Mode of Production  [From Class Society to Communism]