Rob Schaap asks, >1998 gets 10/10 on that report card. What else should I be looking for? A theory that explains the report card data in relation to historical changes in the labour process. The rudiments of that theory can be found in an appendix -- "Results of the Immediate Process of Production" -- that appears in the 1976 New Left Review edition of Capital, Volume One. Two keys terms in that appendix are the "formal subsumption of labour under capital" and the "real subsumption of labour under capital". Those two terms condense precisely one-third of the conceptual apparatus needed to analyze the course of development of the capitalist mode of production from beginning to end. Or should I say, from beginning to END? The other two-thirds of that theory are not "contained" in Marx's Capital, although there are tantalizing hints. So it is undecidable whether or not Capital theorizes "the end". Those who would contend that Capital doesn't theorize the end are whistling in the dark. So are those who would maintain that it does. A rough measure of how intensely "the resultate" has pre-occupied academic marxism over the past 22 years can be had by doing an Alta Vista search on the terms "resultate" and "subsumption". Or, not much. This would be roughly comparable to Einstein writing to FDR telling him about the practical possibility of building an atomic bomb and FDR writing back to say he was too busy fighting a war to bother with such things. It's only a theory. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The TimeWork Web: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
