[Pen-l] Re: The Irrelevance of Workers In Economic Theory

[Michael Nuwer <nuwermj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, I agree with you and realized after sending the message that I should have 
said something about "from the perspective of capital."

Jim Devine wrote:
> Michael Nuwer quoted Marx:
> > "the pendulum of the clock has become as accurate a measure of the relative
> > activity of two workers as it is of the speed of two locomotives. Therefore,
> > we should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but
> > rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man
> > during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing." [The Poverty of
> > Philosophy]
>
> In my interpretation, Marx is here looking at the world from the
> perspective of capital (or using the fetishized vision that most
> people have). It's as if capital _wants_ to treat each work hour as
> equivalent; the normal workings of capitalism tend to make each
> concrete labor into merely abstract labor.
>
> However, there are "counteracting forces" such as working class revolt
> and also the development of new types of skills and new types of jobs.

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