Social Relations, Revolution, and Capital

[Charles Brown <BrownBingb@xxxxxxx>]

From: MARIPOWER716@xxxxxxx


At the end of the day classes are formed not by abstract logic but by
the material act of introducing new productivity equipment into the
process of pro duction and this signals an internal development-taking
place. Again the question is framed as I raised the initial discussion
as "what takes place to cause the abolition of a class?" "What is it
that unravels the value producing system as it unfolds in our daily
life?" "What is the impact of the injection of a qualitative new
ingredient into the production process?" I state emphatically that a
communist class has in fact arisen and what we are experiencing is
different than what Marx and Engels called "the reserved army of
unemployed."  ^^^^^^^

CB: Lets look at these issues one more time.  Seems to me that classes are
defined by their ownership or lack of ownership relationships to the process
of production.   With the introduction of even qualitatively new
productivity equipment into the process of production, such as cybernetics
or even cyborgs or even a matrix,  a new class arises if a new form of
ownership relationship to this equipment arises. A new technological or
physical functional division of labor does not define a new class unless it
spurs new ownerhsip forms.