[lbo-talk] Re: WMT goes orgo

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 25 14:58:08 PDT 2006


--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:


> I'm sorry, but I don't fetishize workers. Your
> argument is like saying
> that we shouldn't tear down the prisons because
> workers put so much work
> into them. Fuck that workerist stupidity.

I love the Krisis pamphlet Manifesto Against Work. I am captivated by Moishe Postone's Time, Labor, and Social Domination. I think the Situationists are grand.

But when these anti-work communists criticize work, what they mean is what Marx called "abstract labor," commodity-producing labor. Value-producing labor. Labor for an anonymous market.

Not all productive activity is "work." The core contradiction of the commodity form is that between value and use-value.

Let's abolish the miseries of proletarian existence, not the vast accumulations of material wealth (material wealth, not abstract wealth, i.e. money) that capitalism has created.

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