How about "dilemma" as in The Wage Prisoner's Dilemma: http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2015/06/trigger-warning-wage-prisoners-dilemma.html
I have proposed an approach that isn't one-shot, all or nothing. Whether anyone is interested is another story. On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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