As for what Marxists and Marxism 'say' about 75 hour weeks, I might suggest a closer reading of what Marx himself actually said about workers becoming mere appendages to Capital's machines and the need to fight for a shorter working day based on the theory he introduces in speeches like "Value, Price and Profit". Marx makes the argument in "VPP" that the worker sells his skills to the capitalist and the capitalist gets to keep the product of the whole of the worker's labour time. The worker's value is paid for in the first hour or two of his labour time. The rest of his labour time is given over gratis to the employer. Thus, we have Marx time and again emphasising the need for the worker to attempt to organise his power with his fellow workers to shorten the working day to its absolute limit and beyond, to the revolutionary abolition of surplus labour time for the capitalist.
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