[lbo-talk] Oppression

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Mar 18 10:32:29 PDT 2010


Ted: 'I've just come across the following by Shlomo Avineri on Hegel on "labour" based on Hegel's System der Sittlichkeit composed in 1802-1803and the two versions of the Realphilosophie delivered as lectures in 1803-1804 and 1805-1806.'

But Ted, don't you think that the stronger explication of the difference between Marx and Hegel is this:

Marx distinguishes between work, that ever-present human necessity, which entails the inescapable fact of objectification, or use-value production on the one hand, and on the other, labour, which is specific to capitalist society, being not just in physical opposition to its object, is also alienated in the other sense of being equalised through exchange and made abstract. The former cannot be got rid of, the latter can. Marx's concept of labour in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts is under-developed. But in Chapter One of Capital, he clearly and plainly distinguishes between work and labour in a way that is closed to Hegel.



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