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Fundamental change means

The transformation of production relations must be based on the development of social productive forces.

Production relations are economic relations formed by people in the process of material production, which are independent of people's will. It includes ownership relations of means of production, interpersonal relations in production and product distribution relations. The so-called transformation of production relations means the change of ownership of means of production (for example, socialist transformation means changing private ownership of means of production into socialist public ownership).

Extended data:

First, the main content of production relations

1, relations of production are the basic category of the methodology of political economy. Main contents: Production relations include the ownership form of means of production, people's position in production, mutual relations and product distribution mode.

2. The relations of production are the economic relations formed by people in the process of material production, which are independent of people's will. Concrete manifestations: Material interests, that is, economic interests, are the concrete manifestations of production relations, which are determined by the ownership of the means of production and the status of people in the social production system.

Material interests are the material motive force of people's social activities. Animals are engaged in production activities, and there is class struggle within species, which is different from human class struggle. The struggle for survival among species. Struggle for existence among species certainly does not belong to the social category, but belongs to the community category.

3. The narrow sense of production relations refers to the mutual relations formed by people in the process of direct production, including the ownership relations of means of production, the relations between individuals in production and the distribution relations of products.

4. Generalized relations of production refer to the mutual relations formed by people in the process of reproduction, including production, distribution, exchange and consumption (of course, consumption is unique to human beings) and many other relations.