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

[michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, how is your last part inconsistant with Marx?  Surely, capitalists
have long used techno. means to change production methods to decrase
reliance on unruly workers.

tom walker wrote:

> 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 previously unpublished "Chapter Six" of Capital and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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