Marta, there are strains of marxism that dont treat work as a utopia. However, so-called "real socialism" replicated the fordist factory system and implemented taylorism in a race with capitalism. As a result, it ended up being as bad, if not worse, than the capitalist system it was competing against. Progress = factory output...but what kind of fulfillment was it for the bodies locked into those factories and locked into those spaces. At least in China, you had to bribe bribe bribe just to be able to relocate from one city to another.
But that is a very narrow view of production. Production does not just happen in factories. There is production of subjectivities, new ways of living, new possibilities; this is another type of productivity. It seems to me that a society that viewed production in this broader sense would be more liberating for all bodies...perhaps this is even a point on which the division between base superstructure breaks down.
Under the western capitalist system such productivity gets reterritorialized into the production and consumption of commodities; in "real socialism" work was just as alienating, despite the banners and crappy art depicting the noble worker and the socialism he was building.
Anyway, you are right, under either of these systems,capitalist or "real socialism", those whose bodies do not allow them to produce commodities tend to be devalued.
-Thomas
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"Money eats quality and shits out quantity" -William Burroughs
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