by Iain M. Banks · 5,095pp · 1,429,463 words
—regarded by the Culture as a crude, over-complicated and inefficient form of rationing—was irrelevant within the society itself, where the capacity of its means of production ubiquitously and comprehensively exceeded every reasonable (and in some cases, perhaps, unreasonable) demand its not-unimaginative citizens could make. These demands were satisfied, with one
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many? What was the point?” “Insurance, possibly,” Bettlescroy said. “Defence. You build the means to build the fleets rather than build the fleets themselves, the means of production being inherently less threatening to one’s neighbours than the means of destruction. It still makes people think twice about tangling with you.” The little
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
not trying to stage a revolution, or upend the social order, or destroy capitalism and usher in a new age of collective ownership over the means of production. They wanted higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions. In many cases, they were striking in response to some sudden outrage, often including cuts
by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words
, Ignorance and Squalor. This success involved striking a number of very liberal balances. Economic policymakers endorsed Keynesian demand management but eschewed wholesale nationalization of the means of production, distribution and exchange. Welfare policymakers provided an expanded list of benefits but also demanded good behaviour and a willingness to work. Leading educators balanced the
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inclusion) departments. These new radicals followed the old Marxists in treating institutions as fig leaves for class power. But they shifted their focus from the ‘means of production’ to the ‘knowledge superstructure’, from the working class to racial and then sexual minorities, and from material living conditions to questions of identity. It is
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
ownership that the Soviets developed is only the first step in a process that must arrive finally at public ownership of the land and the means of production (68, 133). 27 Contemporary Chinese cinema presents several examples of nostalgia for the peasant world, but one should not confuse that nostalgia with a claim
by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook · 28 Mar 2016 · 345pp · 92,849 words
, just one thing: physical force. The only way human beings can coexist peacefully is if they “leave their guns outside” and agree to live by means of production and voluntary trade rather than brute violence. As Locke explained, this was the purpose of government: to protect the rights of the “industrious and rational
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uniformity in outcomes, irrespective of individual differences in ability or effort.”40 The Socialist Unity Party of Germany oversaw virtually all production, most of the means of production were owned by the state, and prices and wages were placed under centralized control. The government dictated what to produce, how to produce it, and
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of the nineteenth century, all major government restrictions, regulations, and controls were removed and the basic institutions of capitalism were established: private ownership of the means of production, freedom of competition, and free trade. The government was small (spending around 10 percent of GDP), and taxes were low.55 The 1870s would mark
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. He ends up endorsing two forms of government that are potentially consistent with social justice: (1) a socialist state, in which the government owns the means of production, or (2) a regulatory-welfare state similar to that seen in the United States and especially in Europe, but one which much more aggressively pursues
by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words
of sharing, so we might as well redeem this most direct one: social, social action, social media, socialism. When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it
by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright · 167pp · 50,652 words
a destructive force that required replacement by democratic planning. Not only did they believe we needed to replace private ownership with social ownership of the “means of production,” but also envisioned replacing the impersonal rule of market forces with a self-conscious system of democratic planning. During the middle third of the twentieth
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broad welfare of society rather than the narrow interests of particular elites. Sometimes, especially in more radical versions of socialist discourse, “social ownership” of the means of production is invoked as a contrast to “private ownership,” but in practice this has generally been collapsed into state ownership, and the term social itself ends
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, statism and socialism—can be differentiated in terms of the dominant form of power controlling economic activity3: •Capitalism is an economic structure within which the means of production are privately owned and the allocation and use of resources for different social purposes is accomplished through the exercise of economic power. Investments and the
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control of production are the result of the exercise of economic power by owners of capital. •Statism is an economic structure within which the means of production are owned by the state and the allocation and use of resources for different social purposes are accomplished through the exercise of state power. State
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officials control the investment process and production through some sort of state-administrative mechanism. •Socialism is an economic structure within which the means of production are socially owned4 and the allocation and use of resources for different social purposes are accomplished through the exercise of “social power.” In effect this
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
of capitalism’s future failure lay in the business cycle. Eventually, a great recession in the industrialized economies would stir the proletariat to seize the means of production from the capitalists. In the meantime, capitalism would relentlessly and systematically drain the life blood of the working class. KAPITAL IN A NUTSHELL In Marx
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subsistence wages to laborers and then turning around and selling goods at higher money prices that no longer reflect their labor value. Capitalists control the means of production and use it to generate and hoard surplus labor. Mechanization and productivity gains generate higher profits and result in layoffs, which in turn lead to
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productivity gain and unemployment leads to periodic crises in the capitalist economy. At some point, the cycle will break down, and workers will control the means of production and thus be able to retain for themselves the surplus value of their own labor. With apologies to Marx and a century of Marxist scholarship
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ultimate global battle as the end of capitalism itself; the transformative financial crisis predicted by Marx in Das Kapital that would reunite workers and the means of production to take back the accumulated labor value stored in the portfolios of the world’s moneybags. Imperialism, he argued, was the transition of competitive capitalism
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to monopoly capitalism, in which the means of production are finally controlled by a handful of powerful global financial giants who have divided the world into spheres of interest and thus reduced costly competition
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-bourgeois philistines. But as a matter of fact the capitalist threads, which in thousands of different intercrossings bind these enterprises with private property in the means of production in general, have converted this railway construction into an instrument for oppressing a thousand million people (in the colonies and semicolonies), that is, more than
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would likely agree with her on this point, and Lenin’s political implementation of an ideal Marxist state through totalitarianism betrayed Marxist ideals, placing the means of production in the hands of the party, not the proletariat. Although Rand would certainly have rejected the idea, her books are clearly one link in an
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
powers in business and government have bent the original democratic architecture of the Internet to their will. Huge institutions now control and own this new means of production and social interaction—its underlying infrastructure; massive and growing treasure troves of data; the algorithms that increasingly govern business and daily life; the world of
by Wendy Brown · 6 Feb 2015
the ironic “double freedom” that Marx designated as the prerequisite of feudal subjects becoming proletarianized at the dawn of capitalism (freedom from ownership of the means of production and freedom to sell their labor power), a new double freedom — from the state and from all other values — permits market-instrumental rationality to become
by Alan Greenspan · 14 Jun 2007
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