Here Ted's emphasis on individuality and industriousness does not seem to be derived from universality in the sense of species-being, the whole human race and the global community,
Charles
>>> Ted Winslow
Leisure time is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the development of the capabilities that define the required individuality.
The "universality" of "production on the basis of exchange values" produces "the universality and the comprehensiveness of his [the "invidual's"] relations and capacities." This universality and comprehensiveness is also a necessary condition for the development of
the required individuality, i.e. of the individuality required for the
activities that constitute the content of relations of mutual recognition, e.g. creating ("composing") and appropriating "the most beautiful music" and "the finest plays."
For instance, such "composing" requires "general industriousness"; it
involves "the most damned seriousness, the most intense exertion."
"Really free working, e.g. composing, is at the same time precisely the most damned seriousness, the most intense exertion. The work of material production can achieve this character only (1) when its social character is posited, (2) when it is of a scientific and at the
same time general character, not merely human exertion as a specifically harnessed natural force, but exertion as subject, which appears in the production process not in a merely natural, spontaneous
form, but as an activity regulating all the forces of nature." http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch12.htm
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