Re: AUT: Remarks on Midnight Notes

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Levy wrote:

>I'm not sure that I understand the "wider context" that _both_ you and
>Doug think "the book" should be placed in. For instance, when Doug asked:
>"What does this fine distinction do for you politically?", he seemed to me
>to be suggesting that value categories only have meaning if they can be
>pragmatically applied. Thus, he has suggested elsewhere that the
>"intelligent use of bourgeois statistics" can adequately serve as a
>substitute for using value analysis. I doubt that you agree with him on
>that point so maybe the two of your should caucus and discuss what the
>"wider context" means in _this_ context.

Jerry, I'm not going to carry over these tedious conflicts to yet another
arena. My argument was not with the labor/labor-power distinction in all
contexts, but specifically in the way in which Paul used it here, in what
seemed to me like a theoretical excuse to ignore household relations
because they were somehow outside the value circuit. To me, that's bad
theory and bad politics, and one of the many reasons why "Marxists" are so
disproportionally male.

Doug





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