File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 308


From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Fw: [marxist] Limits of workers councils
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:35:10 -0500


> Peter wrote:
>
>     "i don't want to reconstruct the economy, i want to destroy it."
>
>
> This easy play with words. Why not "smash" it?
> While I largely agree with your critique of Jamal
> though I also found the critique of workers councils he was
> commenting on, less than enlightening  there never has
> existed, or never will exist, a society  a world   without
> economy as long as we are living in material world.
>
> Harald
>
By destroying 'the economy' we can mean many things and Peter and I may or
may not agree, but my take is that we want to destroy a world which falsely
separates the economic, the political, the personal, the cultural, etc as
somehow different spheres rather than a totality of human activity.  The end
of work does not mean the end of human being producing, but is really just
another way of saying "the end of exploitation".  The end of the economy
would mean the end of a bifurcated, fragmented world where human creative
activity gets shattered into 'politics', 'economics', etc.

I don't think anyone means the end of production and distribution of
use-values :)

Cheers,
Chris

p.s. since commie00 already asked you what you think, I figured I would
wait.



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