Lecture
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(in particular, the direct subordination of creative labor and the appropriation of the person together with his creative abilities) are preserved (in a sublated form) through a specific system of bureaucratic control, administrative subordination within the framework of the state and of corporations, as well as in the form of various mechanisms of extra-economic coercion (for example, psychological and ideological pressure on workers), a system of paternalistic dependence of workers on corporations and their bosses. This gives rise to a complex system not only of the economic but also of the psychological, ideological, and social power of corporate capital. As a result of the unfolding of all these processes under conditions of late capitalism, there forms a peculiar kind of transnational clan-corporate grouping ("pyramids"), within which the international exploitation of the human being—not only of the wage worker—takes place, along with the alienation and subordination to capital of his personal qualities. Thus, the most important source for creating a kind of "substitute" that makes it possible to use, within the framework of the old system, the progress of technologies in material production and, above all, the processes lying "beyond material production proper," is the hegemony of corporate capital—but not it alone. A peculiar reaction to the processes of the sublation of bourgeois production relations may be the preservation, within the old world, of what István Mészáros calls the metabolism of capital. On the basis of this author's work one may conclude that the sublation of bourgeois production relations need not mean the simultaneous sublation of all the other components of social life characteristic of this system.1
The latter include, in particular, the social division of labor, the specifically capitalist structure of production and its macro-technologies, the types of organization of economic units and their interaction, the structure of the social life of society, and models and traditions of behavior, and so on. All these processes, opposed to the genesis of the liberation of labor, make it possible, as it were, to restore and maintain the mechanisms of alienation in the relations connecting the worker with the means of production. It is precisely because of the development of the above-mentioned mechanisms of the hegemony of corporate capital and the preservation of its "metabolism" 1 See: Mészáros I. Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition. L.: Merlin Press, 1995. that the problem of the sublation of alienation (and, in particular, of exploitation) cannot be, and will not be, resolved by itself, apart from qualitative, dialectical changes in the system of present-day social relations (a social revolution), carried out by quite definite social forces (which ones exactly is the subject of another work) that are objectively interested in bringing about such changes. Capital is capable, up to a certain limit, of developing transitional forms that absorb the development of creative activity, but by itself it will never change so as to lose its power, its hegemony. Such a change can be carried out only by a social force opposed to capital—this fundamental conclusion of Karl Marx has not become outdated even in the twenty-first century. Let us turn now to an analysis of the economic foundations of the social structure of late capitalism.
7.1. Why does the exploitation of creative labor lead to the subordination to capital not only of labor power but also of the personality of the creative worker?
7.2. How does the replacement of the creatosphere by the inverted sector, and of the creator-human being by the "professional," take place?
7.3. What is the role of private intellectual property: a) from the standpoint of capital's appropriation of intellectual rent, and b) from the standpoint of the development of the human being's creative potential?
7.4. What are the extra-economic forms of capital's control over the creative personality?
7.5. How is the appearance created of the transformation of the creative wage worker into a member of the capitalist corporation?
7.6. How does capital control the creative activity of the so-called self-employed?
Часть 1 Chapter 7. The Subordination of Labor, Free Time, and the Human Being: Capital, Its Hegemony,
Часть 2 Self-check questions - Chapter 7. The Subordination of Labor, Free
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