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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


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