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[-] jlou@mastodon.social -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Marx made mistakes though. For example, he assumed that the right of appropriating the whole product of a firm and control rights to direct the workers in the firm were attached to the ownership of capital. In reality, capital can be rented out just as labor can be hired. It is really the employer-employee contract that is at the core of capitalist appropriation. Ownership of capital just increases bargaining power to get favorable contract terms such as the employer contractual role

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

You just described Marx's theories, while claiming to correct them.

Wild.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Marx thought that control rights over the firm were attached to ownership of capital rather than being logically separately acquired in the employer-employee relationship.

"It is not because he is a leader of industry that a man is a capitalist; on the contrary, he is a leader of industry because he is a capitalist. The leadership of industry is an attribute of capital, just as in feudal times the functions of general and judge were attributes of landed property." -- Marx

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