ABSTRACT
Whenever any one of these processes is seen in isolation from the others , its social significance is lost sight of. This is an easy thing to do , because even when they all take place in the same country, they are separated in both time and space . Money gathers in banking institutions , and its movement to the separate places where things are made , factories , is seen only by the small number of people who organise corporate lending . The shops from which the new commodi ties are sold are seen by all of us , but as means of acquiring the necessities of life , and so we do not observe the connection between our purchases and the making of the products in factories . The internationalisation of bourgeois social relations obscures their politi cal reality even more , because the spatial separation of the different moments is so much greater . Even within any one of them, specialis ations often involve enormous distances . For example , the pro duction of cars nowadays involves the manufacture of parts in many different countries , while the banking system makes billions in mi nutes through constantly shifting money around the world.
