Internationalism No. 85, March 2026 Special Issue, Page III From the series Principles of Marxism Marx asserts that production plays a determinant role within a unity that includes the processes of circulation. In the fully developed form of Capital , the relationship between the relations of production and the relations of distribution is defined unequivocally. The so-called distribution relations, then, correspond to and arise from historically determined specific social forms of the process of production [...]. The historical character of these distribution relations is the historical character of production relations, of which they express merely one aspect. Capitalist distribution differs from those forms of distribution which arise from other modes of production, and every form of distribution disappears with the specific form of production from which it is descended and to which it corresponds. Historically determined relations ...