From: LeoCasey-AT-aol.com Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:34:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: M-TH: Re: Productive and Unproductive Labor This discussion of productive and unproductive labor strikes me as incredibly Talmudic (or taxonomic, if you prefer scientific metaphors). Sure it is innane to treat intellectual labor -- whether it be the production of a song or a software program -- as unproductive. But the more important question, which Doug put, remains: of what importance is this distinction? If the point is merely that it must be worked through to maintain the integrity of some rather orthodox version of classical Marxism in a post-Fordist economy which increasingly challenges the categories of that system, then okay, admit it. But I'll be damned if I can see any relevance to questions of political import. Leo Casey --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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