I think that Nader sees competition as making capital work harder for its profits, while, as you say, ignoring its effect on workers. His view echoes the old misnamed Ricardian socialists of the early nineteenth c.
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:39:23PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Chris Brooke wrote:
>
> >In message <p0621020dbeabd4b2b6e8@[192.168.1.100]>
> >lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org writes:
> >> There's a passage in which Marx describes competition as the force
> >> that commands individual capitalists to "March! March!" Anyone know
> >> where it is?
> >
> >There's this bit of the Grundrisse, which might be the bit you're thinking of:
> >
> >http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch08.htm
> >
> >*** (In competition this inner tendency of capital appears as a
> >compulsion exercised over it by alien capital, which drives it
> >forward beyond the correct proportion with a constant march, march!
>
> That too! In fact, that's the one I remember.
>
> It's hard to reconcile this with the Naderish view that there's not
> enough competition in the economy. Though maybe an ascetic like him
> enjoys being ordered to "March! march!"
>
> Doug
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