fragment on machines (was Re: [PEN-L] query)

[tom walker <lumpoflabour@xxxxxxxx>]

"Devine, James" wrote:

> I don't see why the references to "fettering" should
> be rejected. In
> simple terms, Marx's theory involves three parts:

Without going into much detail at the moment, I
believe that the Italian autonomist theorists sort of
turned this fettering stuff on it head, in a manner of
speaking. And their positions were based on their
readings most particularly of the Grundrisse
(especially the fragment on machines) and of the
previously unpublished "Chapter Six" of Capital and
the distinction between formal and real subsumption of
labor.

So for the autonomists, the "fetters" and crisis are
manifestations of the working class struggle and it is
capital's effort to overcome this resistence by
workers that leads to new forms of the labor process.




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