I think he's talking about the separation of conception (of orders) from execution (following those orders) and the use of the objective mechanism of machinery to give managers a monopoly over the former, leaving the workers doing only the latter.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:01 PM, nathan tankus <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the process of listening through volume one of capital. I've come to > this part and want some input: > > > "Nevertheless an essential difference at once manifests itself. In > Manufacture it is the workmen who, with their manual implements, must, > either singly or in groups, carry on each particular detail process. If, on > the one hand, the workman becomes adapted to the process, on the other, the > process was previously made suitable to the workman. This subjective > principle of the division of labour no longer exists in production by > machinery. Here, the process as a whole is examined objectively, in itself, > that is to say, without regard to the question of its execution by human > hands, it is analysed into its constituent phases; and the problem, how to > execute each detail process, and bind them all into a whole, is solved by > the aid of machines, chemistry, &c. [17] But, of course, in this case also, > theory must be perfected by accumulated experience on a large scale." > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S1 > > When Marx talks about the transition from subjective principles of > production to objective principles of production, does he mean that > production shifts from needing direct applications of human skill and muscle > (and thus human intellect) to functioning without direct applications of > human skill and muscle? Or am i missing something about the meaning of > subjective and objective here? > > -- > -Nathan Tankus > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
