Best part of my memo for 9/20.

The transition from tribal society, ancient society, feudalism, and capitalism to communism is a transition from natural division of labor to voluntary division of labor (Burawoy, Lecture 9/16); a transition to communism would mean the overthrow of this “fixation of social activity” in which workers produce for “an objective power above” them and the rise of a new society in which no one specializes in one task but can be “accomplished in any branch he wishes”, made possible by society’s regulation of general production (Tucker, p. 160).