[lbo-talk] Unproductive Workers = The Best Organized in the USA

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 18 10:58:57 PST 2006


Nathan Newman wrote:


>This is a bizarre definition of "productive" to begin with.

I've always wondered if this usage was an instance of Marx's irony - taking the classical distinction between productive & unproductive, and turning it into a critique of both capitalism and its economics. It doesn't matter what kind of "crappy shit" (as he put it in the Grundrisse) you make, just as long as you make a buck for the boss.

Doug



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