Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Time, Labor and _Social_ Domination. I posted a webpage years ago
relating Postone's analysis to passages in Marx's Grundrisse and
Economic Manuscripts and to Dilke's "anonymous" pamphlet The Source
and Remedy of the National Difficulties. That analysis is the reason I
insist on the key importance of "disposable time", which is not just a
"commodity" like a table or a linen coat but is the social category
that dialectically overcomes the economic category of surplus value
(which, to answer Jim Devine's recurring question is why I am so
"obsessed" with the issue of work time reduction.)

http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/postone.htm

Speaking of disposable time and the reduction of working time, I have
posted a "draft submission" to the White House Task Force on Working
Families (that was formally announced yesterday) on the EconoSpeak
blog at http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2009/01/task-force.html


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone on this list read his _Time, Labor, and Modern Domination_?
> Any comments on it?
>
> In his Introduction he asserts that Marx produced a Critique of
> Political Economy, NOT a critical political economy. And he spends 400
> pages discussing value without ever a single reference to prices or
> other empirical matter. If he is even partly correct, it would help
> explain why so many Marxists or quasi-Marxists, as soon as they turn to
> describing or analyzing current economic matters tend to turn into
> Keynsians.
>
> Carrol
>
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