"It is a presupposition of the 'wage form' that workers are treated
exclusively as individual persons, so that their labor-power can be
bought and sold as a thing of greater or lesser value, so that they can
be 'disciplined' and 'made responsible'. But the collective is an
ever-renewing precondition of production itself. IN REALITY, THERE ARE
ALWAYS TWO OVERLAPPING COLLECTIVES of workers, made up of the SAME
individuals (or almost) and yet incompatible: a capitalist-collective
and a proletariat-collective."
Etienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx (Chris Turner trans.)
