Jim, I agree with you and realized after sending the message that I should have
said something about "from the perspective of capital."
Jim Devine wrote:
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.
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