[D66] The Devil in the Plow, Clock & Book

[R.O.]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/03/the-devil-in-the-plow-clock-book/

The Devil in the Plow, Clock & Book
By
Martin Billheimer
counterpunch.org
7 min


[...]Despite his antagonism to much of the traditional Left, Zerzan 
shares two of Marx’s voices: the polemical and the historic-analytical. 
One of his main criticisms of Marx – or more properly, of Marxists– is 
that only the means of production are to be handed over the working 
class, not the means to fundamentally change or halt what is produced. 
Even if all production were localized in people’s democratic communes, 
metabolism between worker and land is never possible because the land is 
still seen as abject material. This fatal mistake can only produce a 
resurgent bourgeoisie, soon back in charge again as both Bakunin and 
Trotsky wryly predicted. Thus, the laws of the capitalist mode of 
production will inevitably return behind whatever cosmetic façade 
tragedy chooses to trade for farce.