>at any rate, I thought of this because I caught some heat some
>months when, talking about the sociology of power, readers disagreed
>with my argument that the least efficient method of extracting labor
>is through the use of direct force. They felt that the threat of
>physical force was the best way to extract labor power.
As soon as I went back to Read's book, I came across this passage, re. slave v. free labor, with a nice quote from Marx:
>In Deleuze and Guattari's terms the difference between these
>different modes of subjection is the difference between "machinic
>enslavement," into which the human being is incorporated in the
>productive process as another element of fixed capital under the
>direction of a "higher unity," and "social subjection," in which the
>worker is no longer a component of the machinery, but a user, whose
>control is interiorized. In an unpublished chapter of Capital Marx
>illustrates this difference boldly and crudely, distinguishing
>between the subjectivity of the slave and the free worker:
>
>"In contrast to the slave, this labor becomes more productive
>because more intensive, since the slave onl works under the spur of
>external fear but not for his existence which is guaranteed even
>though it does not belong to him. The free worker, however, is
>impelled by his wants. The consciousness (or better: the idea) of
>free self-determination, of liberty, makes a much better worker of
>the one than of the other, as does the related feeling (sense) of
>responsibility; since he like any seller of wares is responsible for
>the goods he delivers and for the quality which he must provide, he
>must strive to ensure that he is not driven from the field by other
>sellers of the same type as himself."
>
>The same conditions that make the abstract subjective potential of
>labour unruly--its libertion form any determinate sphere of need and
>from any presupposed political relation--are also the conditions of
>subjection. There is a fundamental undecidability at the
>intersection of the production of subjectivity and capital.