productionistn.adj.

1823 Times 3 Mar. 3/2 First, there were the transitionists, who thought that all the evil arose from the sudden transition from war to peace; next came the over-productionists; and lastly, if he might coin a word, the taxationists.]

1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 118 The productionist refused to take the price offered for his labour.

1842 Times 24 Dec. 3/3 Can it be believed in Christendom, in the 19th century, that these capitalists refused to see the suffering operatives, declaring that they had no concern or connexion with the real productionists, but only with the master undertakers?

1888 Co-operative News 22 Sept. 958 The ideal co-operative productionist begins by ignoring or defying the existence of competition.

1927 A. H. Hansen Business-cycle Theory viii. 190 The subsequent work of Robertson, Pigou, and Cassel helped to synthesize the theories of the productionists and the consumptionists.

1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 253 The position of the productionist, including that of the conscious worker-productionist, is not so popular as the policy of bald price-reduction at all costs.

1991 Theory & Society 20 324 Productionists maintain that social dynamics derive from the relationships of the dominant system of production within a given social formation.

1957 I. Deutscher Russia in Transition i. iv. 74 It would be an exaggeration to describe the Plan as a genuine compromise between the ‘productionist’ and the ‘Consumptionist’ viewpoints.

1959 Western Polit. Q. 12 107 It has been more distributist than productionist; the labour party has hardly begun to seize hold of the vast possibilities of science and technology.

1973 China Q. 55 566 Is there consensus within the political elite on the ‘distributionist’ rather than ‘productionist’ orientation of post-Cultural revolution policy—or not?

1990 J. Zerzan in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (rev. ed.) 119 The world is divided into opposing forces,..the contrast of culture and nature begins and a productionist, hierarchical society is perhaps already prefigured.