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The Proletariat and the Problem of Unproductive Labor

🕑 Added 2023-10-29 22:41:00 +0000 UTC

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Cuck Philosophy

That's exactly right, because his analysis of capital and wage-labor is precisely an analysis of the capitalist system specifically. Applying this analysis to socialism would make no sense. Socialism would either have a completely different notion of "productive labor", or no productive labor at all. In fact, in some cases the young Marx saw communism as the overcoming of labor itself

Little Beruit Dweller

Marx’s apparent decision to classify “productive labor” as that which produces capitalist profit seems to be a poor word choice in retrospect. So according to Marx, no labor under socialism can be considered productive? I wonder if something isn’t being lost in translation.

Park

Idk…I think the notion that some laborers aren’t deserving of solidarity because their work isn’t considered meaningful or worthwhile is a pretty intuitive attitude to have in capitalist societies. It’s also an attitude that is prevalent irl (see how ppl talk about baristas or fast food employees)…so any pushback on the notion seems good to me

Sam Bernad

Meh, appreciate the effort that went into this and all you do. Just don’t really care for the petty left semantics. The left is useless and saturated with posturing narcissists- that logo Daedalus tweet is the perfect example. Let’s see some more phenomenology! ^_^