1.   As we have seen in the case of Mormonism, a dialectical relationship exists between the Asiatic and the capitalist modes.

2.   Capitalist modes of production, he says, are Marked by a curious paradox.

3.   First, the state must meet the ever-increasing requirements for effective demand generated by the capitalist mode of production.

4.   In the capitalist mode of production, however, the workers are landless and have no independent means of subsistence.

5.   In this lay the historical peculiarity of the capitalist mode of production.

6.   The capitalist mode of production, for example, developed in Britain prior to industrialisation.

7.   The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production.

8.   The superiority of the capitalist mode of production led to a rapid transformation of the structure of society.

9.   Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.

10.   The Marxist position starts from the premise that modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.