> > From: Charlie > Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:47:26 PDT > It will be a tough job to establish a real connection of the > relations/forces law to the matter of disposable time. Regarding the > latter, we must also acknowledge an almost opposite ideal: the humanizing > of labor so that it becomes a sought joy rather than a burden imposed by > exploiters and by nature.
The central argument appears in its most succinct form on page 398 of the *Grundrisse,* quoted below. Marx's argument is articulated in the substantial passages from *Grundrisse* that I emphasize -- pages 397-423 (notebook IV), 604-610 (notebook VI). and pages 704-711 (notebook VII. the "fragment on machines"). Certainly the humanizing of labour is an important issue that is implied in the formulation that the realm of freedom can only be established on the basis of the realm of necessity. The priority Marx gave to reduction of the working day *as a prerequisite* results, in my view, from the premise that the scientific and artistic capabilities for that humanization develop in disposable time, which is to say outside of the social domination inherent in wage labour. Just as capital on one side creates surplus labour, surplus labour is at > the same time equally the presupposition of the existence of capital. *The > whole development of wealth rests on the creation of disposable time.* > The relation of necessary labour time to the superfluous (such it is, > initially, from the standpoint of necessary labour) changes with the > different stages in *the development of the productive forces*. In the > less productive stages of exchange, people exchange nothing more than their > superfluous labour time ; this is the measure of their exchange, which > therefore extends only to superfluous products. In production resting on > capital, the existence of necessary labour time is conditional on the > creation of superfluous labour time. Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30619): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30619 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
