Re: [ox-en] Creating a revolutionary situation
- From: Martin Hardie <auskadi tvcabo.co.mz>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:00:51 +0200
cc et al
Have a look at this from Marx Beyond Marx by Negri. It is a part of one of his
lessons on the Grundrisse (the part known as the Fragment on Machines and the
General Intellect)
It starts here on page 139 (I have just put the opening part so you can find
it and go to the link for the rest)
http://mozambique.twiki.us/twiki/bin/view/Main/MarxBeyondMarx (P.S. feel
free to use this twiki)
139 MARX BEYOND MARX
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Basing ourselves on what we have obtained so far, we can now take up the
"Fragment on Machines." This is, without doubt, the highest example of the
use of an antagonistic and constituting dialectic that we can find, certainly
in the Grundrisse, but perhaps also in the whole of Marx's work. The chapter
on machines covers the last pages of Notebook VI and the beginning of
Notebook VII (Grundrisse, pp. 690-7 12; 5 82-600). This chapter was written
at the end of February 1858 and is located, we, have already pointed this
out, at the peak of Marx's theoretical tension in the Grundrisse. It is also
a moment of logical conclusion. Henceforth the process of capital develops
through a series of critical elements, as much from the point of view of
synchronic construction of the categories as from the point of view of their
diachronic, historical determination: to the point where the antagonism takes
on the form of working class subjectivity. At this point the antagonism opens
into subversion. It is now a matter of bringing the different threads
together, to harvest the totality of the process in all its richness. Let us
begin again at the beginning and move forward.
140 MARX BEYOND MARX
The analysis begins with the dialectic of living labor. .......
The also look at the relevant sections of the Grundrisse
pages 690 ff also available at:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm#p690
It goes well past this particular page (you can get the refernces from the
negri abaove.
I have just started to reread this butI think it is probably the most apposite
part of Marx for any analysis of Floss. Well that along with the part of the
Grundriss starting on page 172 with the phrase " The labour of the individual
looked at in the act of production itself, is the money with which he
directly buys the product, the object of his particular activity ...."
AT the presnet, although theri are tendencies to the contrary we stills ee
Floss being mediated by capital (Grundrisse 700 Negri 143).
I would be interested to see how these passages sit with others on the list.
Martin
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