[lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 31 10:25:35 PST 2010


On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> Only Carrol and Angelus seem to get the non-autonomy of labor (and
> though they may dispute it, in the process they repudiate, or at least
> critically complicate, marxist writ about capitalism being the
> struggle between two classes). Saying that workers' working makes
> capitalism work seems controversial only if you take it as a moral
> statement. But it's not. We all, even the non-laborers, reproduce
> capitalism every day. So what? It's not a failure of will or
> consciousness. It's how capitalism works.

If that's all it means, then do you mind if I yawn?



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