[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[shag]

don't know if charles is paying attention but in regards to his last post
castigating carrol for not realizing that marx's claims about class were
transhistorical, it's hard to tell how you're using it, but carrol's using
it differently. plus, there's this, from Heartfield:


> Marx's point is different. He says that less developed society depends
on direct coercion because the indirect compulsion of the market is not
yet in place. ...  Marx's argument stresses what is historically
specific to capitalism, that it does not rest on direct coercion. ...

is what Carrol is talking about -- as is Postone -- in particular, the
specificity of the focus on capitalism that doesn't require direct
coercion to compel people to work. This all ties in to *why* people became
so interested in "oppression" (see iris marion young's discussion here:
http://cleandraws.com/2009/03/15/whiteness-speaks-feminist-issue-v-issue-feminists-should-care-about/