of capitalism by the decline in the importance of work?
There are two aspects to this. The first is economic, with the increase in organic composition - science, technology, machinery, robotics and computers now have more importance- and the progressive decline of variable capital and of wage labour.
But to deduce sociological consequences from this, as Andre Gorz has done -he says that the workforce no longer has any role, that it has disappeared- descends into economism. These visions confuse the working class as a whole with a specific part, the industrial workers and with the classical production line; this position becomes more and ing class but, nevertheless, capitalism is continually penetrating, on an unprecedented scale, numerous fields from which it was previously absent. [Ernest] Mandel is right when he says we are seeing an enormous expansion of the working class, of those who are forced to sell their labour in order to live.
theory+pructice 5 • Can Marxism Survive? • page three novation and they introduced it determined by the existence of nity. That is what I call a Roman-