> Subject: RE: Marx, Brenner, Technology (Was Re: [lbo-talk] preferences)
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> JKS writes:> Marx identifies nothing
> > else that would increase productivity other than
> > markets.
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> that's not true. Most important to Marx is the subjection of
> labor by capital, i.e., the control over the labor-process by
> capital, enforced by the reserve army of labor.
Not as an explanation of Marx's concept of *productivity*. Rather, it is developments in the forces of production (which includes human labour) which lead to increases in productivity. Certainly Marx never identified markets *per se* as increasing productivity.
-- Lew