One cannot but agree. The "problem,"* of course concerns what actions in the present can, at least potentially, lead to that end.
Carrol *I hate the word "problem" in political contexts, but am too lazy now to select a better word. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2:41 PM To: PEN-L list Subject: [Pen-l] Abolition of the wages system! On June 27 1865, Marx read the concluding section of his address on Value, Price and Profit (alternatively "Wages, Price and Profit") which concluded as follows: At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto: “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: “Abolition of the wages system!" -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
