The Logic of Labour in Marx's Machine Thought—A Three-Dimensional Interpretation from Technique Transformation,Existential Clarification to the Critique of Capital
Marx identifies the logic of labour in the evolution of the machine on the basis of three dimen-sions:the production technological examination,the historical ontology perspective and the critique of political economy.The transformation of technology from tools to machines contributed to the indepen-dence,division and opposition of manual and mental labour,and gave rise to a tendency towards the gradual separation of the physical and intellectual elements in the sphere of direct production.The his-torical ontological orientation of the machine,on the other hand,reveals that social labour changes as the intrinsic properties and organization of the means of labour change,and thus constructs the material prereq-uisites for the transition from alienation to unity between individual and social labour.The capital control of the social labour force has led to the degeneration of the means of labour into fixed capital.The critique of the capital application of machines in massive machinery production exposes the brutal oppression of living labour by dead labour in the process of capital proliferation,and shows the erosion of the principle of capital by the constant expansion of dead labour within production.The revolutionary emancipation of the civilizing potency of massive machinery production will surely bring about a re-unification of mental and physical strength,of the individual and society,of the past and the present,at the level of labour.
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