Re: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

[Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> So, I'd say that there has been and will be
> cross-fertilization
> between Marxist standpoints and other standpoints,
> sometimes due to
> people literally going back and forth between the
> two or more.

Sure.  Like I said in the blog entry, I think Roswitha
Scholz's critical reception of figures like Judith
Butler in order to synthesize what she calls
"value-separation" (Wertabspaltung) is very
intriguing.  That with the emergence of modern
society, you have a splitting-off of a structurally
masculine sphere of commodity-exchange, wage labour,
and citizenship, and a structurally feminine sphere of
affective, non-waged labour.  Rather than viewing the
second feminine sphere as a positive counter to the
masculine sphere, it constitutes its second face.
This is very illuminating, and it's a nice way of
opposing theoretically fuzzy positions like that of
operaismo, which try to subsume housework to the wage
relationship, defining houseworkers as proletarians
and such.

But at a certain point of cross-fertilization, you no
longer have a discrete entity called "Marxism."
Instead, what you have are certain very useful and
valuable, indeed, indispensable ideas which have been
developed by Marx.







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