Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:28:45 +0100 From: Lew <Lew-AT-dialogues.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: M-G: Re: M-I: LOV and state capitalism In article <Pine.SOL.3.94.970330223250.27767A- 100000-AT-utkux4.utcc.utk.edu>, Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes > >Marx did allow for a worker's state with bourgeois forms, if you are >prepared to accept the early writings of Marx. In the initial stage of >communism, "primitive communism," later characterized as the socialist >stage, Marx sees a world where "the category of laborer is not done away >with, but extended to all men," and "the relationship of private property >persists as the relationship of the community to the world of things." "In >negating the *personality* of man in every sphere," Marx writes, "this >type of communism is really nothing but the logical expression of private >property, which is this negation. General *envy* constituting itself as a >power is the disguise in which *avarice* re-establishes itself and >satisfies itself, only in *another* way. The thoughts of every piece of >private property--inherent in each piece as such--are *at least* turned >against all *wealthier* private property in the form of envy and the urge >to reduce to a common level, so that this envy and urge even constitute >the essence of competition." He goes on to discuss the labor structure >writing that, "The community is only a community of *labor*, and an >equality of *wages* paid out by the communal capital--the *community* as >the universal capitalist. Both sides of the relationship are raised to an >*imagined* universality--*labor* as a state in which every person is put, >and *capital* as the acknowledged universality and power of the community." >[All emphasis Marx] > >Andrew Austin > > This is an example of the "crude communism" that Marx was in fact rejecting. -- Lew --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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