Re: Which Marxism? (fwd)

Marx uses MOP in two ways. One is as a societal model. The other is as a
technical mode. For example, chattel slavery in the US south, according to
Marx, was capitalist production, and was therefore a component of the
social mode of production that underpinned the world capitalist market. As
a technical mode of production, however, chattel slavery differed from the
wage-labor - capital relation. Technical modes are modes of exploitation
and labor processes abstracted from the larger totality which stamps
societal components with their overall character. IW's method does not
really deviate from Marx's method in this regard, just the terminology is
different. What Marx and Engels predict (largely proven valid by the
passage of time) is that through a process of globalization capitalism
would become established as the only social mode of production, subsuming
under itself several modes of exploitation, but eventually replacing these
with the wage-labor - capital relation.

Andy