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Thinking about Capital vol. 1, chapter 13, and how a theory of co-operation applies to working class politics.
Marx said that many workers working together not only increases the productive power of the individual, it creates a new, instrinsicly collective power.
In organzing work we can observe that the co-ordinated activity of many people does produce a new power, one which is derived from the number of people engaged in activity and its collective planning.
Engaged in collective work, workers' individual differences "compensate each other and vanish."
Observe this tendency in the process of clarifying ideas and developing new theory. Collective discussion and writing does not depend on the skill and intelligence of any one member, but on the work of individuals critically examining their experiences and old ideas as a group.
Under capitalism, workers cannot co-operate unless brought together in a labour process. Capital puts us into motion together and gives rise to the productive power of social labour.
Organzing work is often put into motion by the intervention of concious revolutionaries into concrete social conditions which together creates the impetus for self-organization.
"When the worker co-operates in a planned way with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species."
