... and that the problem of revolution is to find a way for this potential subject to actualize itself.
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Replying to @tonreihe @Outsideness
The most charitable thing to say about this, is that the returns have been less than promising.
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Replying to @tonreihe
Of course, I agree, and would go much further. It was a local trend inflated far beyond its range of application.
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Replying to @Outsideness @tonreihe
Marx thought the workers would never be automated entirely, I guess. but industry socialized machines...
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Outsideness
Marx discussed this in the Fragment on Machines in the Grundrisse.
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He recognized, it seems, the conflict between tendency to automation and the labor theory of value.
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That conflict can be read, as Marx seems to do, that full automation is impossible w/in capitalism
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But it can also be read as a reductio of the labor theory of value, which is more promising.
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Replying to @tonreihe @Outsideness
did he try something like Carson's subjective LVT?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Outsideness
Nope. From the POV of the history of economic thought, Marx is a fairly orthodox Ricardian.
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Unorthodox, essentially, only in the stubbornness with which he drives Ricardian thought to its limit.
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