general intellect
As a general intellect (English to " common knowledge ", " the public mind " ) is called in the threat posed by Operaism discussion about the post-Fordist industrial society with a word of Karl Marx the general knowledge in its social role as a direct productive force. According to Marx, the development of the general intellect manifests in a capitalist society, both in the production of industrial goods as Fixem capital and in the control of the social life process.
Use in Marx
Marx uses the term only in one place in the machine fragment of the manuscript layouts of the Critique of Political Economy (1857-1859), where he writes: