J Lou on Nostr: What Kropotkin missed is that there is both a positive and negative result to ...

What Kropotkin missed is that there is both a positive and negative result to production. Workers are de facto responsible for creating both the positive and negative result. The negative result accounts for liabilities for used-up inputs, which accounts for past production. Responsibility has many different senses. The sense I mean is the sense Ellerman calls de facto responsibility. This is the same notion as is applied in a criminal trial to ascertain legal guilt.