CB: The antagonism between the social nature of production and the private nature of appropriation or property is what you are trying to get at. Technical production as it develops makes itself more and more social. Marx assumes that the overall division or socialisation of labor increases ; maybe on the common sense pricinciple that _social_ production - two heads and hands are better than one - is more efficient than private production.
********** WL: No I am not. The "social nature" is birthed with birthed with species activity and becomes visible with the division of labor. Socialized production is a different concept that rises under feudal economic and social conditions with the revolution in the productive forces and the growth of bourgeoisie and proletariat. Marx speaks of the bourgeoisie entering into antagonism with other section of the bourgeoisie who interest has become in contradiction to the advance of industry. I directed quoted this passage. ******************* CB: So Marx assumes, on the other "hand", a tendency to centralization and monopolization at the bourgeois pole of the class antagonism, that is always tending to the ultimate private property, all owned by one. This is the opposite of socialization of ownership, dividing up the fruits of production based on all the hands and heads that are in production. ***************** WL: Marx does not assume what you have written in any of his writings. Actually Marx writes the exact opposities of what you have written which is a feudal kind of communism. You write: >>CB: socialization of ownership, dividing up the fruits of production based on all the hands and heads that are in production.<< This is hard to believe and modern communism has nothing whatsoever to do with "dividing the fruits of production based on all the and heads that are in production." Please reread the Critique of the Gotha Program. Enough of this for now. Waistline _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
