<div>Angelus Novus wrote and posted:</div> <div> </div> <div>Jappe's books is a fine introduction to the<BR>"Wertkritik" of the Krisis and Exit! groups. <BR>Hopefully an English translation will be forthcoming. <BR>I was surprised to find this review of it.<BR><BR><A href="http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2006/Aug-Sept/Jappe_Aug-Sept_06.htm" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2006/Aug-Sept/Jappe_Aug-Sept_06.htm</FONT></A><BR><BR>"Jappe says that it is of primary importance today to<BR>make use of Marx's work because it criticizes the<BR>basic categories of capitalist society and is not<BR>simply concerned with distribution. Nor did Marx<BR>envision applying his theory of value to<BR>non-capitalist societies....</div> <div> </div> <div>*******************************************</div> <div>MB</div> <div>I'm concerned with distribution, because control over distribution is *power* over my product. Right now, the
working class, including yours truly, don't have control over production or the power that control implies.</div> <div> </div> <div>*******************************</div> <div>More Jappe via "News and Letters":</div> <div> </div> <div>Jappe makes use of the notion that Marx conceived of<BR>abstract labor and the value created by it not as<BR>material and concrete entities but as societal<BR>abstractions.</div> <div>******************************************</div> <div>MB</div> <div>Marx conceived of how one could strip the abstraction (exchange-value) from the material (use-value). </div> <div> </div> <div>********************************</div> <div>Jappe via "N&L" again:</div> <div> </div> <div>On the other hand, Jappe considers most of<BR>Marx's empirical work " obsolete" for our times.</div> <div> </div> <div>***********</div> <div>MB</div> <div>Workers create Capital; they don't own or control the social product
of their labour.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Mike B)<BR></div><BR><BR>Read "Penguins in Bondage":<br>http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/<p> 
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