In a message dated 7/13/2010 9:23:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: CB: Ok Isn't class antagonism you describe a conflict between the old division of labor and the new division of labor with the new division of labor arising based on development of new organization of production and new means and instruments of production ? Comment The environment of one things always merge with and acts as the environment of another thing. The conflict between old means of production and new means of production is an issue of transition from old methods and means to new methods and means. This conflict - contradiction between old means and new means, is resolved quantitatively or by development of the new means in stages until the new means of production gain dominance and primacy as the new division of labor. Specifically, each quantitative advance of implementing new means of production - a new quality, brings to an end expansion of production on the old basis and further reconfigure means of production on the new basis. This contradiction between old and new means of production is resolved in stages. Antagonism is not contradiction. Antagonism is a form of resolution of property rather than means of production development. Antagonism IS NOT a form of resolution of "a conflict between the old division of labor and the new division of labor with the new division of labor arising based on development." Antagonism or class antagonism arises from property forms NOT instru ments, tools, energy source or means of production. Bourgeoisie and proletariat are property categories that arise based on a division of labor. But the genesis of the antagonism is the long history of private property. Bourgeoisie and proletariat arise in antagonism with the serf form of labor - property, and the serf as a property category evolved in unity and conflict - contradiction, with the nobility. Nobility is a concept of a property relations rather than a description of a certain stage of development of the division of labor. The serf is a concept of property and political status rather than a category of means of production. Beneath the serf form of property is a living human being utilizing a historically evolved collection of means of production expressing a division of labor. Say a wooden plow and then a steel tip plow. This serf is perhaps a "plowman" but his status as serf means he is a subject as opposed to a citizen because his political status makes him the property of another human being. On the other hand the law of value arises from and has its genesis in the division of labor rather than the form of property. The law of value speaks of equal quantities - magnitudes, of labor being exchangeable with one another. The moment of means of production and social relations (political status) occur simultaneously but there is a difference. WL.
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