Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 144)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 144)

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Economic possession refers to the control of the means of
production as they are combined in the labour process. The
labour process involves the combination of three elements:
labour activity (work), the object of labour (i.e. the raw
materials which have to be worked upon and transformed into
use-values) and the means by which labour acts on the objects
of labour (i.e. tools and equipment). Marx defines the labour
process a8:
...the activity whose aim is the production of
use-values, the appropriation of external substance
for needs, is the general condition for the
exchanges between man and nature, a physical
necessity for human life, and therefore independent
of all human forms, or rather common to all. (10)
Thus, the labour process and its three constituent elements
are components of all forms of production. In the capitalist
mode of production, for example, economic possession of the
means of production is unified by the capitalist and her/his
agents, where they economically control and direct all _ the
constitutive elements in the labour process: labour, objects
of labour and means of labour. Capitalist control attempts to
control in minute detail the work of the labourer, the
quality of the object of labour and the pace of the means of
labour. The aim of this control is to produce commodities as
quickly and as cheaply as possible and to utilise labour to
its maximum degree. This is necessary since labour 1s the
source of surplus-value. The capitalist mode of production in
its earliest stages of development seeks the real subsumption
of the labour process under the direct control and decision
making of capital and seeks scientifically to rationalise the
labour process in order to ensure maximum profit, or in other
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