This was a book proposal that I started writing about 6 months ago and then added a few things to this morning.
https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2024/06/book-proposal-marxs-fetters-and-realm.html Marx never renounced revolution. He did, however, repeatedly insist on a *prerequisite*, a *precondition*: the substantial reduction of the hours of wage labour. The rationale for that precondition can be found in Marx's discussion of disposable time in the Grundrisse. One of the cornerstones of the classical or traditional interpretation of Marx comes from his preface to *A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy -- *his discussion there of the forces and relations of production and of the era of social revolution that begins when the relations become fetters on the development of the forces. That dialectic of forces and relations is echoed five years later in his draft of the beginning of chapter 48 of vol 3 of *Capital, *where Marx discusses the true realm of freedom, which contains that statement, "The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” (for the true realm of freedom to flourish). Marx did not present the rationale for that claim there but it is repeated in chapter 10 of volume 1 and in his Inaugural Address to the First International. The real analysis underlying Marx's "prerequisite" assertion is developed in the *Grundrisse,* particularly in his discussion of disposable time. Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30586): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30586 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106436332/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
