--- George Scialabba <scialabb at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I guess I was assuming that mass production, large
> accumulations of
> capital, and a significant division of labor are
> inevitable in a high-tech
> economy.
Mass production is inevitable for a highly populated, urban technological society.
But "capital" itself is a social relationship, something any communist society would have to do away with as a pre-condition.
The same applies to the "economy." The economy is exactly what we have to do away with.
I mean, I think I know what you mean to say, but I can't help being pedantic about terms like "capital" and "economy." I think anthropologizing social phenomenon that only exist with a society of generalized commodity production, and trying to project them backward and forward in time as human universals, is something we should avoid.
But I think you and Doug are both saying that a large-scale organization of human society presents logistical difficulties, which I don't disagree with.
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