In Marxist theory, subsumption is the process by which social relations, particularly the labour process, are progressively brought under the control of the capitalist mode of production. The concept, which originated in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, was adapted by Karl Marx to analyze the historical and logical development of capitalism.
In Marxist theory, subsumption is the process by which social relations, particularly the labour process, are progressively brought under the control of the capitalist mode of production. The concept, which originated in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, was adapted by Karl Marx to analyze the historical and logical development of capitalism.
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