tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post781910151642880479..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Manufacturing DiscontentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-14721334003428478972010-03-17T09:31:02.918-04:002010-03-17T09:31:02.918-04:00"capital went to great lengths to influence p..."<i>capital went to great lengths to influence people to redefine themselves as consumers rather than producers. Capital's success in this regard partially confiscated workers' identity, leaving them less able to recognize their own interests, both individually and as a class. </i>" Michael Perelman<br /><br /> Assume a particular state of development in the productive facilities of man and you will get a particular form of commerce and consumption. Assume particular stages of development in production, commerce and consumption and you will have a corresponding social constitution, a corresponding organisation of the family, of orders or of classes, in a word, a corresponding civil society. Assume a particular civil society and you will get particular political conditions which are only the official expression of civil society.<br /><br />-Marx, Karl Heinrich<br /> Letter to P V Annenkov, 26 Dec.Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.com