Medium is the comprehensive term for all instrumental and material components, which working humans need and use for planning, preparation and execution of the working processes. The quality, availability and application of certain media are expression of the cultural and development technical development of the productive forces and production conditions. Highly developed society systems differ from underdeveloped or historically overcome particularly media more complex by the production and use and a higher cross-linking degree of the media both in technical, and in social system connections.

The instrumental components of the media are generally summarized under the term means of production, if they are made available directly and used to the production of certain products.

(In the special one by media gas or vaporous material is also understood, which propels a turbine. That knows in detail water vapour, air or in addition, in the Organic Rankine Cycle an organic material its.)

Arrangement of the media under the aspect of hardware

• Capital goods
  • Reason and soil, effective areas, structural equipments and mechanisms
  • Industrial systems, plants and mechanisms
  • Energy-technical systems, plants and mechanisms
  • Procedure and supply-technical systems, plants and mechanisms
  • Automation, communication and computer-technical systems, plants and mechanisms
  • Machines, apparatuses, devices, tools
• Material and consumer goods
  • Raw materials, materials and addition materials
  • Construction units, semi-finished material
  • Energy, water, air and auxiliary materials
  • Auxiliary and expendable material, office materials

Arrangement of the media under the aspect of software

• Documents and information about work methods and - proceed
• Planning and design documents
• Documents and information about regulations, guidelines and standards which can be kept
• Organization documents
• Information-processing programs (software)

Other definitions from "“the capital"” by Karl Marx

(Deviating from the original text the terms concerned are here emphasized.)

• "“All things, which the work detaches only of its direct connection with the earthwhole, are of nature vorgefundne work articles. So the fish"…"” MEW 23, P. 193 (capital volume I)

• "“The medium is a thing or a complex of things, those the worker between itself and the work article pushes and it as a director/conductor of its activity on this article serves."” MEW 23, P. 194 (capital volume I)

• "“One regards the whole process of the point of view of its result, the product, then appear both, media and work article, as means of production and the work as productive work."” MEW 23, P. 196 (capital volume I)

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