PEN-L message, Re: absolute general law of capitalist accumulation

>These claims about how a subjectivity willing and able to transform productive relations into rational relations are mistaken. Individuals immiserized in this way would ( not) be subjects of this kind. there is no necessity, however, for capitalism to produce immiserization. The organic composition of capital doesn't have to change in the way marx assumes. For this and other reasons, the creation of an industrial reserve army isn't a "necessity" i.e. a necessary feature of these relations. Nor is it necessary that: "they mutilate the labourer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage of a machine, destroy every remnant of charm in his work and turn it into a hated toil; they estrange from him the intellectual potentialities of the labour-process in the same proportion as science is incorporated in it as an independent power; they distort the conditions under which he works, subject him during the labour-process to a despotism the more hateful for its meanness; they transform his life-time into working-time, and drag his wife and child beneath the wheels of the Juggernaut of capital."

Comment

Marx explained what had already happened as the result of a long historical process that separates the producer from their means of production. Then made a series of projection based on the further unfolding of the process that separates the producer from his means of production.

The fact of the matter is falling real wages since about 1973. The fact of the matter is a gigantic polarization between wealth and poverty. The fact of the matter is an enormous increase in debt and longer hours of work. There is an iron necessity for the bourgeois property relations to produce poverty . . . and poverty is a relationship with wealth.

This does not require Marxists dialectic but reading economic indicators and walking outside and looking around. How we choose to explain this is a horse of a different color.

What is missed is the revolution in the means of production that tends to cheaper agricultural products at a greater pace than industrial products and the actual dynamic of reproduction as a bourgeois property relations.

The fact of unemployment is higher than the theory of why this unemployment occurs. Look at the world market and the six billion people on earth.

Melvin P.