About the capitalist use of machines in neocapitalism

Abstract

As we know, simple cooperation appears historically, according to Marx, at the beginning of the process of development of the capitalist mode of production. But this simple figure of cooperation is only a particular form of cooperation as a fundamental form of capitalist production. “The capitalist form, on the contrary, presupposes, from the beginning, the free, salaried worker, who sells his labor power to capital” (Marx, 2014, p.409). However, the worker, as owner and seller of his labor power, enters into a relationship with capital only as an individual.