ABSTRACT
This chapter provides Autonomist Marxist definitions of the categories of the class struggle under capitalism in general. It highlights an Autonomist understanding of the significance of that struggle in the USSR. The class relation in capitalist society can best be defined as the conflict between, on one side, those who do not possess any control over the means of production, but who, being the producers, are the sole source of new value; and on the other side, those who do possess such control by dint of controlling capital. It is fundamentally a relation of production. The circuit of capital involves two processes which for analytical purposes can be considered separately. The first is investment, or die injection of capital into production; the second is sale, or its realisation once production has occurred. Capitalist control over production involves control over a certain kind of investment, namely investment in labour-power.
