The only defence the workers have against capitalism is competition, which enables wages to rise and prices to fall. Marx believed that there was a tendency for monopolies to be created and therefore undermining the power of the workers: "The big capitalists ruin the small ones and a section ...
All in all, even if the minority of railway workers in the CNT had joined the strike it would have, in all probability, resulted in the same outcome. Unfortunately, Morrow’s assertions have become commonplace in the ranks of the Left and have become even more distorted in the hands of ...
Adam Smith and Karl Marx: The Division of LaborAdam Smith and Karl Marx, despite the radical difference of their opinions on capitalism, were two of the greatest economic analysts of their eras. ... While this may, as Smith (1974) has argued, have resulted in an increase in the volume ...
If Marx had chanced to reverse the order of the examination, the same reasoning which led to the exclusion of the value in use would have excluded labor; and then the reasoning which resulted in the crowning of labor might have led him to declare the value in use to be the only ...
Relations of Production Problems of modern society are therefore all ascribed to capitalism by Marx and his followers, rather than ascribing some of them to industrialism—a problem we will return to shortly. Social Class According to Marx, men and women are born into societies in which property...
vol10/iss1/2> Arina LUNGU Marx, Postmodernism, and Spatial Configurations in Jameson and Lefebvre In the early 1970s, Western humanist scholarship and culture has witnessed the emergence of a new paradigm, with focus on the description and analysis of society in terms of spatial configurations....