Bill Bartlett wrote:
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> At 12:54 PM -0600 1/1/09, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> >Currently I'm paying a grad student $18 an hour to read to me March,
> >Moishe Postone's _Time, Labor, and Social Domination_, i.e., I'm paying
> >a bit over $1 a page. I think it's going to be money well spent (and I
> >would suggest that anyone who values the _Grundrisse_ owes it to
> >him/herself to get Postone's book and read it). Both implicit and
> >explicit in Marx as Postone interprets his work is that socialism
> >represents not the realization of the working class but the abolition of
> >the working class,
>
> Yes.
>
> > and that the essence of capitalism is NOT private
> >property plus the market, and that it cannot be transcended by merely
> >abolishing private proprty and the market but that the industrial
> >organization of production must be eliminated.
>
> I don't know what "industrial organization of production" means.
Tell you a secret. I don't either yet! When I find out, I'll try to explain it. I find Postone impressive enough that I'm willing to wait for further explanation of terms & propositions that I don't understand. What I _do_ understand so far makes a great deal of sense. For one thing it firmly situates value as existing ONLY in capitalism; and it firmly locates labor as a creation of capitalism, not a general transhistorical human activity. More later in a day or a week or a month.
Carrol