Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 23:09:35 BST
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Use Value (and not really Aesthetics)


This is totally reminiscent and consistent, in my mind, with the powerful 
green critique of what we call capitalism - that it "externalises the 
costs of production" - ie onto the environment, and I would say, onto the 
quality of human life too.

Chris Burford
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 > i think that howie raises some important issues here in terms of how to 
 > situate domestic labour--what is beig referred to here as the "domestic 
 > mode of production."  i think howie is right to suggest that domestic 
 > labor does indeed produce commodities, namely labor power.  however, what 
 > is important about this is that the production of labor power is 
 > predominatly unpaid labor.  the important part about this is that we can 
 > see how capitalism needs "other" systems of production along side itself 
 > to appropriate and exploit and ultimately submit to the logic of 
 > commodity production.  this is to suggest that while capitalism is 
 > clearly the dominant mode of production, there are parallel systems of 
 > production that are present, yet incorporated into the "logic" of 
 > capitalist production.  In other words, these "other" systems of 
 > production are not "outside" capitalism in the sense that they offer 
 > alternative possibilities for resistance, they are fully integrated into 
 > the system of production that is capitalism, it is just that they are not 
 > organized in the same manner.  they contribute to capitalism even as they 
 > are not synonymous with capitalism.  


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