Michael Nuwer quoted Marx: > "the pendulum of the clock has become as accurate a measure of the relative > activity of two workers as it is of the speed of two locomotives. Therefore, > we should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but > rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man > during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing." [The Poverty of > Philosophy]
In my interpretation, Marx is here looking at the world from the perspective of capital (or using the fetishized vision that most people have). It's as if capital _wants_ to treat each work hour as equivalent; the normal workings of capitalism tend to make each concrete labor into merely abstract labor. However, there are "counteracting forces" such as working class revolt and also the development of new types of skills and new types of jobs. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
