On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 07:30 PM, Charles wrote: > > The principal economic refutation for the populace at large was to say > that Marx forecast absolute immiseration of workers but in fact their > standard of living improved enormously.
And then a phony Marxist takes the immiseration line to a stupid opposite. The phony Marxist would be Herbert Marcuse. Speaking of what would become his One-Dimensional Man , Marcuse wrote in a letter: > > One of my problems will be the transformation of the laboring class under > the impact of rationalization, automation and particularly, the higher > standard of living. I am sure you will know what I mean if I refer to the > discussion among the French sociologists in Arguments and especially Serge > Mallet's articles. It is a question of a changing—that is to say—a more > affirmative attitude of the laborer not only towards the system as a whole > but even to the organization of work in the more highly modernized plants. > Mallet's field study of French workers in the Caltex establishment in > France points up sharply the rise of a highly cooperative attitude and of > a vested interest in the establishment. > –from letter to Raya Dunayevskaya, Aug. 8, 1960 > in Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 13:4 (1989) > https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/posthumous/54_78DunayevskayaCorrespondenceQJI1990ocr.pdf > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39310): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39310 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116301050/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
