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 --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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