Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[kelley]

At 04:40 PM 1/19/02 -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
>  Obviously,
>creating a do-it-yourself semiconductor plant is not quite on the same
>level as a DIY kiln or bakery. If building a semiconductor plant didn't
>require the existence of a massive military-oriented capitalist economy,
>they would be ubiquitous around the world. If its the case that having
>high tech requires an organized First World capitalist economy, it ain't
>going to be very easy to make new computer chips after the revolution.

the bakery requires bread bags and sacks. who's going to make them? it 
needs trays to bake the breads. it needs screws, bolts, nails. it needs 
light bulbs. how the fuck are these any different than semicoductors?

this is what is assinine about the small is better left, anarchist or not. 
there are some reasons why we need large scale production: because it 
renders economies of scale that, voila!, decrease socially necessary labor 
time.

there's a great piece in Michael Burawoy's anthology, Ethnography Unbound. 
It's all about a small scale anarchist led bakery and how it faltered a 
division of labor where some people resented the route drivers having more 
freedom than the people stuck in the store. yadda.

kelley