(the) mechanics for disrepair
This demand that each category be explicitly related to class struggle is not to reduce everything to class struggle, because class struggle is not an independent, outside cause of the categories and relations. Nor is it an exterior, derived consequence of them. Capital, as we have begun to see, is the class relation, and that relation is one of struggle. Class struggle is the confrontation of the capitalist class's attempt to impose its social order - with all its catagories and determinations - and the working class's attempt to assert its autonomous interests. Working-class struggle is that revolutionary activity which puts the 'rules of the game' of capitalist society into question. This is why all those rules and determinations must be read from a perspective which insists on evaluating every aspect of capital from the point of view of working-class strategy. This is the source of the two sided character of capitalist categories. The 'science' of the philosophers and the political economists is only capital's view of itself. The political reading of Capital, and of capital, is a strategic activity of the working class. There is no third, objective point above the struggle, because revolutionary activity reveals the other side everywhere.
                                        --Harry Cleaver, from
Reading Capital Politically

"(the) mechanics for disrepair: glogalization, capitalism and some ideas on what to do about it":

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