Accumulation and Technology

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Accumulation and Technology: Exemplar 2

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 25 Blätter, mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Anstreichungen

Year of publication:: 1984

Source material date:: [vermutlich um/vor 1984]

Note:: Exemplar 2 (Exemplar 1 mit anderen handschriftlichen Anmerkungen siehe AL00656752).

Shelfmark:: S/M.5.2

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.48671/nls.js.AC14446022

5 movements are of interest in a long term perspective ). Marx did not explicitly deal with this question but I imagine he might have answered it as follows: The "extent and energy of accumulation” (p.680) is determined historically,i.e. the elements which act on it are too diverse to be represented in a simple scheme. In the short or medium run we may take the trend value very raoughly speaking as given, that is, as a continuation of the existing trend of the recent past, provided there are no new historical factors which cross the path of accumulation and make it go faster or slower. The Role of Technology in Accumulation and Distribution. The attainment of a certain level of technique was, historically speaking, the condition for a surplus to arise, and therefore for exploitation and accumulation to take place Agriculture and irrigation on fertile new land provided the surplus on which the first urban civilisations were built The further technical progress since then has no.t only provieded surplus but also the manpower required for accumulation at a rapid pace. Accumulation may at times be hindered by supply constraints especially shortage of manpower. The potential threat of supply constraints was crucial in early capitalism (the industrial revolution ) because the pace of its accumulation was greater than the increase in population. Marx showed how these constraints were overcome: By an additional supply of manpower released from agriculture; *At the same time these great achievements produced (or presupposed) not only slavery but also the first major environmental problems ( salination of the soil ).

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