From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 08:03:24 EST
Re Michael E's [8255]: > With collective social ownership and mediated social collective control of > the means of production, the coercion to earn a living would take > another form. The struggle for control of the means of production and > the social plan for production would be then a direct political struggle, > with other losers and winners. True enough, but then we're no longer talking about capitalism. > The individualism of Western capitalist societies has an intimate > connection with the abstractness of association through the social > relation of value. The reification of social relations in money is also a > setting-free from social control by a superior power. I think that > Marxism has not thought deeply enough about this. What is the "superior power"? In solidarity, Jerry
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