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The diffuse spectacle is associated with commodity abundance, with the undisturbed development of modern capitalism. Here each individual commodity is justified in the name of the grandeur of the total commodity production, of which the spectacle is a laudatory catalog. Irreconcilable claims jo…

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Each individual commodity fights for itself. It avoids acknowledging the others and strives to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one in existence. The spectacle is · the epic poem of this struggle, a struggle that no fall of Troy can bring to an end. The spectacle does not sing of…

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Automation, which is both the most advanced sector of modern industry and the epitome of its practice, obliges the commodity system to resolve the following contradiction: the technological developments that objectively tend to eliminate work must at the same time preserve _labor as a commodity…

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Whereas during the primitive stage of capitalist accumulation "political economy considers the proletarian only as a worker,'' who only needs to be allotted the indispensable minimum for maintaining his labor power, and never considers him "in his leisure and humanity,'' this ruling-class per…

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The development of productive forces has been the unconscious history that has actually created and altered the living conditions of human groups-the conditions enabling them to survive and the expansion of those conditions. It has been the economic basis of all human undertakings. Within natur…