technology (Re: Horowitz's center)

[Jim heartfield]

In message <2.2.16.19990310213251.47bfba4a at pop.igc.org>, Roger Odisio
<rodisio at igc.org> writes
>At 05:10 AM 3/11/1999 +1100, rc-am wrote:
>
>> the shortening of necessary
>>labour time is a good thing isn't it?  the problem consists in whether
>>or not this is attached to a limitless lengthening of surplus labour,
>>as it is now.
>
>Good for whom, Angela?  Not for labor.


>  
Not immediately for labour, maybe. But labour gains by the increase in
productive capacity that lays down the basis for a transformation of the
social basis of exploitation. In the here and now, labour increases its
consumption in use values, what Marx calls a basic civilising tendency
of capitalism, even if this is accompanied by a less advantageous
division of the social product overall.
-- 
Jim heartfield