Re: [Marxism] Brad DeLong's "Understanding Marx" lecture

["johnaimani" <johnaimani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Waistline wrote:



<<Revolution, social revolution, comes about as the result of qualitative
changes in the productive forces, the machinery of society self reproduction
and  these qualitative changes create the necessity for revolution. The God
force and  the market can inspire, but social revolution comes about because
of the  introduction of qualitative changes in the productive forces, which
are  fundamental to the existence of any and all societies of human 
beings.>>



In my readings of Capital, the only place I have found where Marx

describes the necessaries for social revolution (pretty much as

in the above) is the below:



"At any rate, it is but a requirement of the capitalist mode of

production that the number of wage-workers should increase

absolutely, in spite of its relative decrease. Labour-power

becomes redundant for it as soon as it is no longer necessary to employ it

for 12 to 15 hours daily. A development of productive forces

which would diminish the absolute number of labourers, i.e.,

enable the entire nation to accomplish its total production in a

shorter time span, would cause a revolution, because it would put

the bulk of the population out of the running."  Vol 3.  Chap XV.  P263.

http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch15.htm



JAI


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