On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Mike Ballard <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for what Marxists and Marxism 'say' about 75 hour weeks, I might > suggest a closer reading of what Marx himself actually said about > workers becoming mere appendages to Capital's machines and the need to > fight for a shorter working day based on the theory he introduces in > speeches like "Value, Price and Profit". Marx makes the argument in > "VPP" that the worker sells his skills to the capitalist and the > capitalist gets to keep the product of the whole of the worker's > labour time. That makes sense and I think Marxist theory provides an entirely satisfactory account of why owners would seek to work their laborers as long and hard as they can. But the article at the head of this thread shows that that owners do this not just to the laborers, but even to their own kind. *That* is much harder to explain in terms of the objective interests of the owners of capital. -raghu.
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