Tom, how is your last part inconsistant with Marx? Surely, capitalists have long used techno. means to change production methods to decrase reliance on unruly workers.
tom walker wrote:
Without going into much detail at the moment, I believe that the Italian autonomist theorists sort of turned this fettering stuff on it head, in a manner of speaking. And their positions were based on their readings most particularly of the Grundrisse (especially the fragment on machines) and of the previously unpublished "Chapter Six" of Capital and the distinction between formal and real subsumption of labor.
So for the autonomists, the "fetters" and crisis are manifestations of the working class struggle and it is capital's effort to overcome this resistence by workers that leads to new forms of the labor process.
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