" . . . about revolutionizing social relations. She wrote this about productive forces, though:
"As we’ve seen in chapter 3, critics of social domination like Harry Braverman and Moishe Postone argue that capitalism has remade not only the social organization of production but also the technologies of production themselves. This constitutes a significant departure from classical Marxism’s more technically neutral view of technology, which holds that a socialist society could simply use the machines developed by capitalism for different purposes. If we see the productive forces as themselves shaped by the imperatives of capitalism, however, it’s harder to see how they could be put to alternative ends." Battistoni, Alyssa. Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (p. 220). (Function). Kindle Edition.
I think the notion of the productive forces as neutral led Lenin to support Taylorism, which imposes bosses rules on workers rather than ensuring democratic control of workplace operations by the workers themselves. . ."
Elementary logic tells us that if Marx was wrong on such basic matter's then his communist theory is wrong.
Then don't get me started on the crimes of Communism.
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