Week 7. Rühle parts 10 to 12; Marx chapters 12 to 14


1. After scattered handicraft production, Marx identifies two further stages of development of capitalist production prior to machine industry. How are each of these three stages defined?
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2. Increased productivity of labour is, on the face of it, a good thing. Why is it not as simple as that for the workers?
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3. Does capitalism promote or hinder routine large-scale cooperation in social production? Does that cooperation promote or hinder capitalism?
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4. Why do the creative powers of the collective worker appear as the property of capital?
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5. How can they come to appear as the workers' own property?
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