In one, the collective laborer or social body of labor appears as the dominant subject and mechanical automation is the object in the other. The automation itself is the subject and the workmen are merely conscious organs, coordinated with the unconscious organs of the automaton and, together with them subordinated to the central moving…
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» NEIL SMITH: One of the striking things for me always about that chapter was the extraordinarily precise mathematical logic of it. I mean, it comes closest to a mathematical dialectic. And sometimes that ability and that way of working are why Marx gets tagged as in some ways a structuralist » HARVEY: positivist!…
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» NEIL SMITH: This brings me back to your your point earlier about the last chapters in Capital. There’s the primitive accumulation chapter of course, but I was thinking as much about the chapter on colonies and Wakefield, and the sense you get from Marx’s critique of Wakefield which is that the realities of…
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