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First, productivity has objective reality and social history.
To deeply understand the category of productive forces, we need to grasp the level, nature, status and development requirements of productive forces. Productivity level is the realistic level of production development; The nature of productive forces depends on the material and technical nature of production, mainly the nature of labor materials; The situation of productivity is the unity of the two, which is manifested in the running state or development trend of productivity.
Second, productivity has a complex system structure.
Its basic elements include: First, means of labor, also known as means of labor. It is the material data or material conditions used by people in the process of labor, among which the most important is the production tools. People's practical ability to solve the contradiction in social and natural mainly depends on the quality and quantity of production tools, which is the objective basis for distinguishing social and economic times. "The difference between various economic times lies not in what is produced, but in how to produce and what means of labor are used for production.
The second is the object of labor. All natural substances are possible labor objects, and the part introduced into the production process is the real labor object. The realistic labor object also includes the object of deep processing of products. The object of labor is a necessary prerequisite for real production. Different labor objects often affect the quality and quantity of labor products.