> >>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 05/01/00 04:50PM >>>
>Apsken at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Doug wrote,
>>
>>> While the absolute immiseration thesis has turned out largely wrong -
>>
>>Whose absolute immiseration thesis? Is that a Zizek idea? Karl Marx wrote in
>>Volume One of Capital, ". . . be his [sic] payment high or low, the lot of
>>the worker must grow worse."
>
>Well that's just dead wrong, isn't it?
>
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>CB: Is that an idiot question or a clever question ?
An assertion, followed by a request for consent. To say that the worker's lot has grown worse over the last 150 years is wrong, and I have a hard time believing anyone would argue to the contrary. But I've known people to argue all sorts of things, so I was inviting disagreement.
Doug