I'm in the process of listening through volume one of capital. I've come to this part and want some input:
"Nevertheless an essential difference at once manifests itself. In Manufacture it is the workmen who, with their manual implements, must, either singly or in groups, carry on each particular detail process. If, on the one hand, the workman becomes adapted to the process, on the other, the process was previously made suitable to the workman. This subjective principle of the division of labour no longer exists in production by machinery. Here, the process as a whole is examined objectively, in itself, that is to say, without regard to the question of its execution by human hands, it is analysed into its constituent phases; and the problem, how to execute each detail process, and bind them all into a whole, is solved by the aid of machines, chemistry, &c. [17]<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#n17>But, of course, in this case also, theory must be perfected by accumulated experience on a large scale." http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S1 When Marx talks about the transition from subjective principles of production to objective principles of production, does he mean that production shifts from needing direct applications of human skill and muscle (and thus human intellect) to functioning without direct applications of human skill and muscle? Or am i missing something about the meaning of subjective and objective here? -- -Nathan Tankus -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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