From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2006 - 22:05:31 EST
> you mean my wonderful old friend Robert Owen, right? I have > older Friends who are equally important in tis matter. Dogan: No, not that old. The person referred to below by Engels in _Anti-Duhring_ was born the year after Owen but died many years before him. "The contradiction between socialized production and capitalist appropriation now presents itself as *an antagonism between the organization of production in the individual workshop, and the anarchy of production in society generally*. The capitalist mode of production moves in these two forms of the antagonism immanent to it from its very origin. It is never able to get out of that 'vicious circle' which Fourier had already discovered. What Fourier could not, indeed, see in his time is that this circle is gradually narrowing; that the movement becomes more and more a SPIRAL, and must come to an end, like the movement of the planets, by collision with the centre. It is the compelling force of anarchy in the production of society at large that more and more completely turns the great majority of men into proletarians; and it is the masses of the proletariat again who will finally put an end to anarchy in production" (capitalization added, JL) Is it, though, the anarchy of capitalist production -- or some other tendency -- which causes proletarianization? And, can this social process be compared to the movement of the planets? And did Engels interpret Fourier correctly in this section of _Anti-Duhring_? In solidarity, Jerry < http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Rt7SjJnEkN8J:www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch24.htm+%22spiral%22+site:www.marxists.org/archive/marx/&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8
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