[Marxism] Capitalists, not bourgeois

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rrubinelli

  Nestor states:

"What really matters with these capitalist -but not bourgeois- ruling
classes is that they do _not_ need to enlarge ths scale of production as a
condition for the system (and their benefits) to exist. "

So we have a capital, and capitalists that don't need to expand, to engage
in an expanded reproduction in order to survive?  But that, that critical
and perpetual, need for expansion, is the signature mark of capitalism, the
dis-
tinguishing characteristic determined by its need to aggrandize labor
through its expulsion from the production process.


Systems of slavery, plantations, encomienda, hacienda, organizations of
rural production do not exhibit that need because they never contain nor can
create the fundamental separation, the fundamental social relation of
capital. And in that critical lack, slavery, hacienda, plantation systems
act as a drag, a brake, on the
internal development of capitalism, on the development of the home market.

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^^^^^^
CB: Marx analyzes the U.S. slave plantation system as having a need for
territorial expansion. He argues that the threatened thwarting of this
territorial expansion by the election of Republican Lincoln as President
precipitated the Confederate military attack on the Union.


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