The dialectic of qualitative change is a new qualitative ingredient is injected into the existing process of production incrementally or quantitatively. This injection of a new quality into an existing process begins its initial qualitative reorganization.
^^^^^ CB: What is the new qualitative ingredient injected ? On 4/16/10, waistli...@aol.com <waistli...@aol.com> wrote: > In a message dated 4/15/2010 6:01:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: > > CB: Isn't there still much industrial production in the world ? It has been > moved away from the Rust Belt in the US, but there is more industrial > production in the world than ever before, no ? > > > Reply > > Of course there is. Is there a revolution taking place in the material > power of productive forces different from the revolution sparked by the > technology inherent to the steam engine? The question is always the direction > of > change, which does not and cannot take place all at one time. First comes > the new technology, then its quantitative application in one area after > another. Then the social consequence of the qualitative reorganized of the > laboring process. The dialectic of qualitative change is a new qualitative > ingredient is injected into the existing process of production incrementally > or > quantitatively. This injection of a new quality into an existing process > begins its initial qualitative reorganization. Not all at one time but > inexorably. At a certain stage in the development and incremental qualitative > reorganization of means of production, these new means of production enter > into antagonism with the old social relations of production founded upon and > making operational the old system of production. Such describes briefly the > impact of the industrial revolution and today the post industrial > revolution on the old social relations of production. > > For instance long after the beginning of the industrial revolution society > remained fundamentally agrarian. Specifically, in 1921 America roughly 21 > million horses were deployed as the primary energy source in farming. 1921 > was after the advent of "Fordism," and well after the invention of the > gasoline power engine, but the impact of the industrial revolution would not > reconfigure the social organization of agricultural labor until roughly 1939 > or what is called the mechanization of agricultural. The shift of the > population from agriculture to industry - the city, occurred in this time > frame > although the industrial revolution began well over a hundred years before > the mechanization of agriculture. > > The shifting of production from the Midwest throughout the world took place > and is taking place in a new context that is without question the evolving > revolution in the material power of production. > > The new Chrysler and General Motors plants to go on line in the next 24 - > 36 months are mind boggling. Everywhere we feel the impact of the revolution > in the means of production. Above all this is being felt in the utter > collapse of the industrial union form as the driver of the labor movement. > > WL . > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
