[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Tue Mar 31 13:33:03 PDT 2009


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/



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