Measure, machine, money.
The aim of the text is to clarify why machines are economically productive only in capitalism and therefore in our society are capitalistic machines. They are capitalist not only because they increase the productive power of the capitalist valorisation, but this valorisation first of all is producin...
| Publicado en: | Capital & Class Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 261 - 273 |
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