From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. ‘At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. Karl Marx, over 150 years ago wrote this in his preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: I found myself racking my brains the other day for a concept I used to understand as a means of explaining why capitalism could make the necessary changes to avert climate catastrophe, but left to its own devices is unlikely to do so.
Wolff, Understanding Marxism ( 2019), 85pp. Richard Wolff in Understanding Marxism concisely introduces Marx’s essential arguments on exploitation in capitalism, and workers’ democracy, finds Graham Kirkwood Richard D.
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