> >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?
I think it is right. In fact, I think today's high incomes amid alienated (both from the products of one's labor and from one's fellows), atomized, desocialized, competitive, increasingly dehumanized people is precisely what Marx had in mind when he wrote that, to the extent that today's capitalist nightmare could have been foreseen at all. I think also that Marx's comment about suffering not only from the burden of the living, but also the dead, is pertinent, and surely the need to sweep away the muck of ages.
Ken Lawrence