The mode of production’s creation determines whether a society becomes free.
Evidence
By the same token, the transition from “to each according to his work” to “to each according to his needs” is determined by the first phase—not only by the creation of the technological and material base, but also (and this is decisive!) by the mode in which it is created. Control of the productive process by the “immediate producers” is supposed to initiate the development which distinguishes the history of free men from the prehistory of man. This is a society in which the former objects of productivity first become the human individuals who plan and use the instruments of their labor for the realization of their own humane needs and faculties. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 214
Categorization
- XREF: This echoes the reader’s attention-economy interests: who controls the productive process (attention commodity circulation) determines whether it liberates or enslaves. — connects to: A new conformism built from below on production enables genuine freedom; Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions; Under immaterial production everyone owns the means of production, ending class antagonism — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 24