Marx Querry: Leisure

[Michael Hoover]

> If anyone has insights or citations regarding Marx's writing on the concept
> of leisure I'd appreciate any off or on list help.  Particularly, I am
> interested in how Marx viewed lesiure as a example or just glimpse of what
> unalienated existence might look like.
> Jacob Segal

if Marx's argument that the 'realm of freedom' is the proper telos of
the 'realm of necessity' has merit, then play would seem an endeavor 
- among others - for realizing the former (which according to M, a
shorter working day is a prerequisite)...see _Capital_ Vol. 3, p.
820, Int'l Pub.

Marx's critique of the 'working day' includes passage about workers 
having no time:

'for eduction,for intellectual development, for the fulfilling of 
social functions and for social intercourse, for the free play of
bodily and mental activity, even the rest time of Sunday (and
that in a country of Sabbatarians'...see _Capital Vol. 1, p. 264,
Int'l Pub.

Michael Walzer briefly discusses Marx and leisure in _Spheres of 
Justice_, pp. 186-189     Michael Hoover