Re: query

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> The form of crude capitalist
> control is antithetical to allowing it to work to take advantage of their great abilities.
> Presumably, tensions will build up between the capitalist form and the productive
> potential, creating pressure for socialism.

The passages in Marx in which he speaks of social relations fettering
the productive capacity are somewhat scattered, not well developed, and
many marxists see them as a form of technological determinism,
incompatible with the overall thrust of Marx's thought.

Carrol