[PEN-L:11776] Re: Prostitutes and "Choice"

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harry M. Cleaver wrote:

>Historically it its. Marx used the term to talk about capital's own
>expansion, the way it "valorized" itself quantitatively. Negri took the
>term, obscure as it was, and turned it inside out applying it to working
>class subjectivity. Instead of capital valorizing itself, workers
>sometimes valorize themselves, not as moments of capital but as autonomous
>subjects (building post capitalist social relations or communism). Some of
>us have used in this sense to focus on the creative positive side of
>struggle that goes beyond resistance and attack to constitutive power
>--the founding of alternatives.

All I can say is we need a lot more of this.

Doug