[lbo-talk] Jayati Ghosh on the contradictory effects of tech change

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Feb 15 10:53:49 PST 2016



> There are only three players in this society: Capital; Worker; and Government. When Capital seeks to destroy Government, Worker's only choice is to support Government.

Capital never, ever, seeks to destroy government. Government is a state function and the heart of capital is its ownership of the state, including government. The only choice (as distinct from the conditioned behavior that characterizes a class "in itself" but not "for itself") for Worker is to replace Capital's state with a state of "a new type" in which social self-regulation is progressively to replace all governmental regulation.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64



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