Re: How we write

[Jim Jaszewski <jjazz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, jones/bhandari wrote:

> Juan, I am having trouble with this passage:

        Hey, let _me_ try.  (the more the merrier..!)


> "Although on the basis of capitalist production the social character of
> their production confronts the mass of immediate producers in the form of a
> strict governing authority,

        The famous contradiction of the social character of modern
production vs. it's formally `private' ownership.


 and the social mechanism of the labor process
> has received here a completely hierarchical articulation

        A further development of the contradiction, pointing out that
hierarchy is, by definition, anti-social.


--though this
> authority accrues to its bearers only to as the personification of the
> conditions of labor vis-a-vis labour itself, not to them as political or
> theocratic rulers as in earlier forms of production

        The modern relations of production do not need to rely on received
authority from gods or other `authorities' -- merely `property rights'.


--the most complete
> anarchy reigns among the bearers of this authority, the capitalists
> themselves, who confront one another simply as owners of commodities, and
> within this anarchy the social interconnection of production prevails over
> individual caprice only as an overwhelming natural law."

        That `authority' -- which heretofore has rested on rigid
hierarchical systems -- is here and now resting on the most flimsy of
foundations: the anarchy of competition -- now fittingly `completes the
spiral', necessarily giving-up place of importance to the true basis of
this whole system -- _social_ production.

        Is that close enuff, Juan?


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