Once market imperatives set the terms of social reproduction, all economic actors -both appropriators and producers, even if they remain in possession, or indeed outright ownership, of the means of production - are subject to the demands of competition, increasing productivity, capital accumulation, and the intense exploitation of labour. For that matter, even the absence of a division between appropriators and producers is no guarantee of immunity. Once the market is established as an economic discipline or regulator, once economic actors become market-dependent for the conditions of their own reproduction, even workers who own the means of production, individually or collectively, will be obliged to respond to the markets imperatives - to compete and accumulate, to let uncompetitive enterprises and their workers go to the wall, and to exploit themselves. Ellen Meiksins-Wood
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:39:36 +0000
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