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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 02:40:23 -0800
From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (rakesh bhandari)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Holloway on Capitalism as insubordinate relationship


Rob forwarded John Holloway's essay, excerpted here:

> Labour, from the start, flees
>from capital in pursuit of autonomy, ease, humanity, but can escape from
>its dependence upon and subordination to capital only by destroying it, by
>destroying the private appropriation of the products of labour.

In his analysis of insubordination,  Holloway seems to echo the ideas of
"zero work" and "self-valorization", the privatistic nature of which has
been criticized by Charlie Reeves:

"Certainly the productivist ideology and the work ethic are in crisis, a
crisis inseparable from the development of the division of labor. This
attitude can have revolutionary significance if it is expressed in
connectin with collective and autonomous action. But it is also true that
this revolt often manifests a privatistic desire to 'take it easy' (itself
a production of the increasing division of the workers by modern
organization of the labor process), a desire which, while understandable,
is without any consciously radical meaning. Ultimately what counts is the
desire and determination to fight capitalism and, in this regard, the
attitude towards work is not, to start with, decisive."

>From Root and Branch (No. 5) (This journal was put out in Boston in the
late 70s, and was commited to libertarian socialist ideas, esp. as
developed by Pannekoek and Mattick.)

Rakesh





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