Immiseration redux: " Secular Immiseration: On the Crisis and Future of Work ( https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/233351/1/Secular_Immiseration_-_Alexis_Moraitis.pdf ) " by Alexis Moraitis, published online August 13, 2025 by Historical Materialism (the link is to a preprint). I came across this article because the author cites my 2021 article, "The Ambivalence of Disposable Time: The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties At Two Hundred."
Abstract This article engages with Marx’s mature critique of political economy and explores its relevance for understanding the crisis of work today. I consider the implications of Marx’s understanding of the relationship between machinery, labour and surplus populations for contemporary debates on automation’s impact on the future of work. Marx’s critique allows us to grasp how the capitalist application of machinery not only subjects the employment of people to permanent insecurity but crucially also tends to worsen their situation as capitalism matures. Runaway productivity growth produces a growing asynchrony between the expansion of capital and the demand for labour that secularly renders employment relations increasingly precarious and insecure. The article also considers some of the political stakes of Marx’s argumentation by exploring the tension between the increasing superfluity of labour and the emancipatory potential of disposable time. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39325): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39325 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
