"The ‘Fragment on Machines’ as Science Fiction; Or, Reading the Grundrisse Politically"

by Trott, Ben (2017)

Abstract

This paper interrogates the 'Fragment on Machines' in Marx's Grundrisse, first widely translated and disseminated in the 1960s at the dawn of post-Fordism. It examines its reception, and its deployment by the Italian Marxian tradition of Operaismo, and the …

Keywords

Machines, Marx, Marx Machine, Technology, Capitalism, Value, Value Theory, Political Economy, Wissenschaft, Fiction, Operaismo, Reproductive Labour, Post-Fordism

Themes

On Marx on Machines, Post-Fordism, Capitalism

Links to Reference

• https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-abstract/42/4/1107/4774592
• https://academic.oup.com/cje/article-pdf/42/4/1107/25163052/bex079.pdf

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