Rosa Luxemburg's work is probably relevant here; she had an acute perception of the need to trace the complex relations between capitalism and the non-capitalist activities which constitute capitalist society. Her work is becoming increasingly relevant in part because neoliberalism is the name of the process by which so many of those non-capitalist activities (e.g., KP in the military, public school teachers, etc) are being incorporated into capitalist relations -- i.e. made into productive workers.
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Smith Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pen-l] For Karl Marx, writers of romance novels are productive workers On 1/24/16 1:45 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Smith, I know that your purpose here is to bait me and not contribute > anything of value, but I was quoting Karl Marx. Mea culpa. I seldom follow Louis' links, but clearly I should have made an exception in this case. What would be presumptuous in a lesser figure is, of course, rather endearing the the Great Man -- Marx, I mean, not Louis. We make allowances for the people we admire, don't we? I fear that Louis is in error -- a characteristically self-important error -- when he says that my 'purpose' here is to bait him. One must admit however that it is one of the minor delights the list affords, a never-failing source of innocent merriment. Best, MJS _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
