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Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1

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Capitalism for Mumford

Mumford is very quick to take capitalism as something seriously. He's clearly a socialist leaning but I also think there's maybe some primitivist leanings in a certain sense and probably some traditional values which now certainly wouldn't fit in with socialism, he says. In relation to this numeric division of time and space and more importantly time in its move from a barter economy to a money economy ultimately just now enters into the possibility of exchange ability things can be chopped and changed you now have time is money so then once you have that notion of split time in relation to productivity and how much something is being madeyou have this possibility for wages for labor and wages. And what happens is when

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