--- Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I'd say that there has been and will be > cross-fertilization > between Marxist standpoints and other standpoints, > sometimes due to > people literally going back and forth between the > two or more.
Sure. Like I said in the blog entry, I think Roswitha Scholz's critical reception of figures like Judith Butler in order to synthesize what she calls "value-separation" (Wertabspaltung) is very intriguing. That with the emergence of modern society, you have a splitting-off of a structurally masculine sphere of commodity-exchange, wage labour, and citizenship, and a structurally feminine sphere of affective, non-waged labour. Rather than viewing the second feminine sphere as a positive counter to the masculine sphere, it constitutes its second face. This is very illuminating, and it's a nice way of opposing theoretically fuzzy positions like that of operaismo, which try to subsume housework to the wage relationship, defining houseworkers as proletarians and such. But at a certain point of cross-fertilization, you no longer have a discrete entity called "Marxism." Instead, what you have are certain very useful and valuable, indeed, indispensable ideas which have been developed by Marx. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index
