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

[Jim Devine]

this seems to forget that (1) Yoshie was using the Marxian terminology
and (2) that for Marx, the word "unproductive" had no normative
meaning (though it had a normative meaning from the capitalist class
point of view).

Yoshie: >>Highways aren't built by government workers, i.e.
unproductive workers. <<

On 1/19/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: >
Yoshie, out of sheer curiosity - what kind of worker are you,
productive or unproductive?  If you consider yourself productive, you
also should consider government workers productive, sine both you and
government workers do the same thing - process information.  If you
are not productive, however, is not your anti-government rant like a
kettle calling a pot black?  Why should anyone take it seriously,
especially that government unproductivity has a greater use value
(e.g. statistics that are of great use to many people) than rants
produced by disgruntled intellectuals whose only tangible effect is
making people upset or depressed? <

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Jim Devine

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