[ox-en] Re: Superior results? (was: Re: [ox-en] Free Software and social movements in South America)
- From: Dmytri Kleiner <dk telekommunisten.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:43:45 +0100
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:38:19 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
wrote:
I mean capitalism succeeded *also* because it were able to produce
better products in at least these respects:
* Lower prices because of improved use of labor (i.e. higher
productivity)
* Products which were only possible by industrial (and thus at that
time capitalist) production processes
* Mass availability of products
Hi Stefan, Capitalism succeed by controlling markets and withholding
the instruments of production from labour.
Since I'm currently in the UK, I've been reading Hobsbawm's 1968
Industry and Empire.
Eric Hobsbawn explains that the industrial revolution in Britain, which
laid the groundwork for for global industrial capitalism, was built
on the Lancashire cotton textiles industry, the same industry that
employed Engels.
Hobsbawn shows clearly that this made possible as result of the
existence of a precarious landless proletariat as a result of
the enclosures and the poor laws, the availability of cheap
cotton produced in colonial slave plantations and the
ban on cotton textile imports.
Capitalism works by employing violence to control markets
and exploit labour.
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Dmytri Kleiner
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