ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the progressive possibilities that exist in sports. There is an intrinsic relation between sports and competition. In sports the basis of competition seems to be present, to be open to observation. The secret of the immense attractiveness of sports is that they present a spectacle of unmystifled competition. The chapter also highlights the difference between competition in sports and daily life. But of course sport is ultimately a part of life. The North American sports-media complex embodies a highly capitalized system of sport. The more capitalized is sport, the greater the contradiction between the cooperative labor of the competitive process in sport and the private appropriation of its result. Socialist competition in sport is uncapitalized competition. As such, it makes manifest, makes visible what now must be extracted from the present structure of competition by analytical labor—the actual basis of competition as cooperative social labor.
