Cool comfort -- very cold -- may be had, though, from the fact that deliberate sabotaging (self) discipline, cooperation and organization of the workers also undermines system rationality.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:51 PM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sandwichman > > Answer: "but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class > always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organised by the > very > mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself." Maybe not > "dialectical rubbish" but perhaps wishful thinking as to the logical > inevitability of the "very mechanism of the process of capitalist > production > itself" disciplining, uniting and organizing the working class for the > revolt to expropriate the expropriators. > > ^^^^^^^^ > > CB: Yup :>( . Unfortunately, Jay Gould's dictum that he could hire > half the working class to kill the other half has played as much a > role in capitalist history since 1867 as Marx's dictum. This has been > by both out right murderous forms as in the US wars on Korea and > Vietnam and, "civil" forms as in relatively high living standards > afforded masses of workers in Western nations that beget opportunism. > > The capitalists have learned from Marx. They have taken measures that > very precisely counter the processes Marx drew attention to. For > example, with so-called globalization they have scattered the point > of production physically and geographically significantly reversing > what Marx termed "cooperation" - putting large numbers of workers in > one plant or factory , and in industrially concentrated regions. > Marx used the term "cooperation" in an earlier chapter ( from the > above quoted passage) in which he defines industry as the combination > of cooperation and machinery. The number of workers necessary to do > a job is reduced in general by the constant revolution of the > instruments of production ( see _Manifesto of the Communist Party). > More efficient machinery or instruments of production is defined by > fewer person hours necessary to do the same amount of work. The > revolutions in science and technology which allows more specifically > automation, and major advances in communication and transportation > have made this possible. > > Cooperation is a major aspect of how Marx sees that workers are > "disciplined, united, organised by the very mechanism of the process > of capitalist production itself". Significantly negating cooperation > or partially negating it undermines Marx's prediction substantially. > The negation of cooperation was through the greater development of > machinery ( computers, automation , containerization, trucks, et al). > So, this is dialectical in that one aspect of this unity and struggle > of opposites negates the other aspect. But it is not a happy > dialectic from the standpoint of the working class burying capitalism. > boo hoo ! > > -- > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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