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[158-1] Kapitalism: In reexamining my response to question 205, I would like to
readdress the relationship between the quantitative and the
qualitative measurements in the labor process. Marx
observes that the capitalist's attempt to outwit the law of
value perpetuates the process by unbalancing natural forces.
Moreover, capitalists attempt to alter qualitative functions
to stay ahead of the production process. It is through
labor value that value is discovered. Marx asserts that in
an environment of ever changing “proportions between the
products,” price will naturally balance out, not by
capitalists making the same mistakes of trying to force
change. By laying off employees when other companies do,
capitalists are trying to outwit the system by staying ahead
of market forces. In turn, they are only continuing the
cycle. Thus capitalists attempting to use methods that
exist in nature to deal with their social constraints, lose
control of their ability to master the very market
properties they are setting out to control. Natural forces
will remain constant despite what people do to alter them,
the same cannot be said about the ability of the producers
to change prices. Their influence can alter price, but in
the end they are not in any more control than when they
started out to reset market prices. |
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