Thursday, July 14, 2016

Locomotilty, Private Property, Division of Labor

From the perspective of the Species, what is distinctive of a Member is the Locomotility that it initiates.  Thus, the fundamental concept of 'private property' is that process of Locomotility.  Now, Labor, qua the modification of external matter, is one expression of Locomotility.  Thus, Labor, and its fruits, is the fundamental element of Private Property.  So, as Marx, better than Smith, recognizes, a Division of Labor immediately alienates one's Labor, i. e. by appropriating into the production that is divided.  Thus, only by collectivizing the productive process is the distinctive contribution to it of one part of the work team recovered.

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