productive labor [used to be: marxist feminism]

Roger Odisio rodisio at igc.org
Sun Jun 20 22:13:59 PDT 1999


Carrol wrote:


>P.S. Marx took his basic theory of productive labor from Smith, and
>Smith was not above using the ambiguity of the phrase as part of his
>fight against priests and nobles. I don't think that figures in Marx's
>discussion. I might also add that I am not convinced that it is, in any
>case, a useful analytic category. But that is an entirely separate issue.

Since I think productive labor is a useful category, I would like to hear why you think it might not be.



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