(…) relations of production are not intrinsically antagonistic.
Sayfa 16 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Any form of rationality occurs within, and therefore presupposes, a particular system of relations of production. Moreover, it cannot be deduced that “class capacities”, defined as “organisational, ideological and material resources available to struggling classes”, will automatically emerge from the process that creates “class interests”.
Sayfa 14 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
(…) unless antagonism is either reintegrated into the forces and relations of production schema or conceptually neutralized by a theory of subjectivity which deliberately establishes determinate relations with the latter, the theory of history based on the necessary development of the productive forces is faced with an 'outside' which strips it of any ultimate rational coherence. We have seen that the reduction of social agents to profit maximizers does not provide that neutralization, since it eliminates antagonism instead of explaining it.
Sayfa 12 - Verso, 1990.Kitabı okuyor
The classic liberal misrepresentation of the worker-capitalist relationship reduced the latter to its legal form- the contract between free economic agents.
Sayfa 11 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
To suppose that workers are profit maximizers in the same way as capitalists would be to remove all objective ground for any kind of link, whether automatically or hegemonically constructed, between the working class and socialism.
Sayfa 11 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
If history is faced with a permanent outside, the outcome of its different moments depends on contingent power relations between forces that cannot be reduced to any kind of unified logic.
Sayfa 10 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Constitutive outside is inherent to any antagonistic relationship.
Sayfa 9 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Conceived as a form, capitalist relations of production are not intrinsically antagonistic. It should be remembered that capitalist relations of production consist of a relationship between economic categories, of which social actors only form part insofar as they are Träger (bearers) of them.
Sayfa 9 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Antagonism does not necessarily mean contradiction. Nevertheless, there is a vital difference between an antagonism regarded as non-contradictory and a contradiction sensu stricto as conceived by Hegel. In the case of the latter, the dialectical (and thus internal) movement of the concept predetermines its subsequent forms, while in the case of the antagonism without contradiction, that internal connection is absent. The resolution (or non-resolution) of the antagonism depends entirely on a factual and contingent history.
Sayfa 8 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Indeed, relations of production could be structured in such a way as to hold back any further development of the productive forces indefinitely.
Sayfa 7 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
The assertion that the development of the productive forces will necessarily predominate in the long run would become an arbitrary dogma.
Sayfa 7 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
If the contradiction between productive forces and relations of production contradiction without antagonism, class struggle, for its part, is antagonism without contradiction.
Sayfa 7 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
Marx says so himself in the quote above: The material transformation of the economic conditions of production can be determined with the precision of natural science.' But this is a contradiction without antagonism. The fact that it is impossible for an economic system to expand indefinitely does not necessarily mean that its collapse must take the form of a confrontation between groups.
Sayfa 6 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
While the latter (Communist Manifesto) asserts that ‘The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of the class struggle',‘ in the Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy class struggle is completely absent. History, in its ultimate determining level, is explained exclusively in terms of the contradiction between productive forces and relations of production.
Sayfa 6 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor
As Wittgenstein said: 'My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as non-sensical, when he has used them as steps — to climb beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)
Sayfa 5 - Verso, 1990.(Preface)Kitabı okuyor