From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 18:47:33 EDT
How many questions were asked in the following? I count one (1). In solidarity, Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rakesh Bhandari" <bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU> To: <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:20 AM Subject: Re: [OPE-L] Falling Fortunes of the Wage Earner > Thanks for this important article Jerry. > > > > a contract that left them with a pay freeze for last > >year and no definite increase for 2005... > > > > > > > >reluctantly voted to approve a pay freeze in the first two years of her > >union's three-year contract > > > > unionized workers to accept a three-year pay > freeze, warning that the plant would be closed otherwise. > > > For these contracts to be binding, someone had to have signed them > freely. But who exactly signed them? > > Actors, ghosts, masks. > > The existence of juridical persons whose formal equality and formal > freedom--though having no real content--is necessary for the sale and > purchase of labor power. Of course the equality is a fiction, the > freedom a deception. And the juridical person who appears in this > relation is nothing more than an outward mask of a human being. > While in reality it is mere appearance--indeed it is for Marx a > phantasmorgia--but in the law there is no other reality. > > See Lawrence Krader Dialectic of Civil Society, p. 232 > > In Beirne and Sharlet's summary, Pashukanis argued that in in > civil society individuals are interpellated as legal subjects, > posited as free and equal with each other; forced to assume a > persona which in Roman jurisprudence originally derived from the > function of an actor's stage mask; the mask enabling the actor to > conceal his real identity and to conform to the role written for him. > Transposed into modern civil society, man must assume a legal mask in > order to engage in the activities regulated by legal rules. > > The Subject is a mode of subjection, a reification and > self-reification of persons. > > Rakesh
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