Great job. Should be posted publicly also.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:36 AM Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > [Marxism-Thaxis] post-Fordism and geographical scattering of the points of > production > <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=subject:%22%5C%5BMarxism%5C-Thaxis%5C%5D+post%5C-Fordism+and+geographical+scattering+of+the%09points+of+production%22&o=newest> > > c b > <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=from:%22c+b%22> > Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:20:36 -0700 > <https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=date:20091013> > > CB: The leaps in communication and transportation through computerization, > satellites, robotics, containerization allow the scattering of the points of > production geographically, globally. In _Capital_ Marx's analyzes the > fundamentals of modern industry , machinery and cooperation here: > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch12.htm Part IV: > Production of Relative Surplus Value Ch. 12: The Concept of Relative > Surplus-Value Ch. 13: Co-operation Ch. 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture > Ch. 15: Machinery and Modern Industry > > > The modern factory system that Marx analyzed there concentrated workers in > one location ,1) co-operation the classic Leninist giant factory site, and > 2) employed machinery, both to increase the rate of surplus-value, relative > surplus value. The developments in communication and transportation of the > last 35 years allow the some b negation of co-operation ( big factories, and > industrial cities and regions, like the US Midwest) _without loss in > production of surplus value_ . This is a dialectical negation in that one > aspect of the contradiction , machinery, developed through computerization , > robotics, satellites, containers, just in time production, et al, allowed > some negation of the other fundamental aspect of the contradiction, > co-operation ( concentration of workers in one plant and industrial cities , > like Detroit where Henry Ford of "Fordism" was, and regions, like the US > midwest.) The points of production can be scattered around the globe without > loss of production of surplus value, and with the added benefit of separating > workers from each other. Recall that Marx emphasized that the concentrations > of workers in factories and certain cities was important in their sensing > their potential power and helped with communist organization. The capitalists > are glad to scatter them and separate them from each other. > > > On the other hand , I'm thinking computers in truck driver cabs is an > advance in the unity of mental (symbolic) and physical labor in one worker, > and thus an overcoming or negation of ye olde antagonism between > predominantly mental and predominantly physical labor ( workers of the head > and workers of the hand). Overcoming this antagonism, this original > specialization, is considered an achievement of the coming communist society. > So, were cb radios, but this is even a bit ( in the computer language puny > sense) more than cb radios. It increases the socialization, division of labor > ( in Marx and Durkheim sense; organic solidarity) and cooperation of labor. > Labor is already highly socialized in capitalism in the 1800s, early 1900's, > mid 1900's. This increased the interconnectedness of workers , in their > technological location, so increases the overall socialization of the labor > process. Walmart's increased efficiency is increased socialization and > cooperation , too. Just as the Fordist assembly line and truck and train > connected factories with telegraph communication ; then telephones. These > electronic communication systems increase cooperation of labor that is not > face to face or within one building , plant, or city. It allows the points of > production to be more scattered geographically/in space relative to prior > levels of development of the means of production which are communication > systems. Computers allow the likes of just-in-time delivery. World cars, for > example, are produced from computer coordinated globally scattered points of > production. Workers of the whole globe, unite > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4769): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4769 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79197484/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
