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Labor, i.e., the working class comes into creation when separated from its objective conditions during successive phases in the history or work.
I would imagine its formal beginnings dates back to the day the factory destroyed the division of labor of commodity producers and made these skilled workers available out of need and desperation, no doubt, available for hire by capitalists who own factories. Ever since that fateful day three social conditions are continually reproduced by capitalism, 1., separation of product from workers, 2., work refined into detailed operation and a de-skilling of workers, 3., a labor-market where every producer has to sell their labor-power!
By this definiion we can conclude China and America are rival capitalist nations.
The factory system recieved a lot of praise and glory when it came into being. This must have meant that a son did not have to learn his father's trade with mother mediating conflicts between them. The son could leave home, leave Pop's business, and the dull boring life of a small town division of labor, to work in a factory, earn a wage, move into a room in the city and become whatever that person chose to make of themselves, derilect or not. Leave behind the provincially minded folk of his small town or valley. Many stories are built to this effect. One comes to mind, the Great Gatsby.
A recent case of a murder in Port Jervis NY is the story of a local shoemaker/cobbler shot and killed during a robbery. The sons after their father's funeral liquidated the cobbler's business despite the fact that there was still a market for it in Port Jervis NY. They lacked the foresight and skill to keep it alive. They could have given another the chance to make it a success. If the sons had put their energy into the cobbler's business they would be far richer than they are today working their father's trade as niche market for handmade shoes in a worldwide market. The sons made a poor choice and maybe their wives encouraged them to make the wrong choice. Their wrong choices enabled in their own way the three social conditions I mentioned above to continue.
The factory system was a complete break from the old traditions and ethics of work in manufacture. Now that we are many centuries away from this break and embedded in a factory system of work is computer technology and science. Labor management programs used to increase worker productivity and a cell phone that connects individuals to capitalists does two things in addition the the three mentioned above. First, the capitalist has successfuly controlled his/her workforce through the workforce against other workers, and 2., workers carry with them in their pocket the market the capitalists aim to penetrate with their products. Five big things are happening to the detriment of the working classes, they are consumers of the the technology and science investment made by capitalists and are consumers of the product the capitalists sell. These social conditions are a bigger issue than commodites having the power to walk and talk and have there own social institutions, though, that is important to know and understand, I think, their use and reliance on captitalist computer science and technology has made them vicitims of their own doing and totally dependent on working more hours under the worst conditions than ever before while the capitalists are enriched by the workers.
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@themarxistproject Thanks. I believe that would be in your department to show how S&T can be applied to meet the needs of society or humanity in contrast to how it is used to control populations now, i.e., the Palestinians as guinee pigs in monitoring the movement of people. You have a show that can reach people. I don't. But what I would like to see is more concrete case samples of real people stories that illustrate how a way of life changes by their own actions, such as my example of the murder of a cobbler in Port Jervis NY.
In my view, there must always be a particular case that illustrates the general theory. Otherwise, people have a hard time understanding that every action they do effects a capitalist revolution to their detriment and demise, and every action they can do can effect a revolution for themselves, but either way, a revolution is effected whether they like it or not. It is just a question of what direction should that revolution be guided, for society or for a capitalist class. S&T is central to this thesis in the role it plays as a weapon for capitalists and not a weapon for workers. So far all Americans aid and abet the capitalists revolutions which look like war, security, intervention to them, is carried on behind all our backs.
So- you need illustrations to break the veneer demonizing software writers, publishers, producers is less effective than exposing them for producing the weapons of totalitarian social control.
Keep up the good work.
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