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>. Firms are abstract > juridical subjects able to buy and exchange commodities one > with another. As such firms could in principle be entirely > automated, and could appropriate their own profit. One > can envisage a science fiction world run entirely by robots > in which private property relations persist and capitalist > firms are run by management computers. Hi Paul C: Yes, it is possible - as an exercise in science fiction - to envision a fully automated economy where robots produce robots. Without *capitalist social relations of production* - and that includes wage-labour - then it would not be a *capitalist* social formation. In solidarity, Jerry |
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