From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 11:25:43 EDT
> >Those who say that there is no abstract labor outside commodity producing >societies are right in one sense: only in commodity producting society, >all abstract labors are set in relation to each other and are compared >with each other. Hans, thank you for your thought provoking messages. A question here: what do we make of the Critique of the Gotha Programme then in which Marx argues that in the early stages of communism society will still abstract from the real laboring activity of living subjects in that the products of labor will still be represented in terms of an ideal or norm--the average simple abstract labor time society requires to produce it. This right of equal reward for equal labor is still a right of inequality (Marx argues) in that it rewards the stronger and punishes the weaker. In his book on Marx overlooked in the English speaking world Michel Henry suggests that Marx is ultimately a critic of abstraction as such from the point of real laboring activity of concrete individuals. Rakesh >
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