The fundamental contradiction of capitalism is that production is social ( the division of labor is the greatest in the history of humanity) but appropriation is private. This contradiction infects production and the establishment of new wants in capitalism.
The transition is from the production of capitalism to the creation of socialism. A mode of creaton is conscious relative to a mode of production's unconsciousness. In the latter, new wants are established behind the backs of the "wanters", and some of these wants are objectively for "anti-use-values" rather than use-values. For uses and wants must always be defined in relation to the social whole, not only the individual and private. Uses and wants are always social uses and wants.
Charles Brown
>>> Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> 08/18/99 12:58PM >>>
Actually, Jim H. was correct. Marx's new wants, however, were not SUV's. He mentioned
examples of newspapers, books, .... Not GM foods.
Fabian Balardini disputed what Jim heartfield wrote:
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> >This is what Marx celebrates in Capitalism, its tendency to increased
> >consumption and the creation of new wants, leading to an all-rounded
> >development of the individual, no less.
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> Marx celebrating the creation of new wants???, Marx as an advertisement executive!!!!
> you gotta be fucking kidding!!!!!!
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