On 1/24/16 4:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Michael, Lou has a point here; remember that Marx wrote for a German > audience in the first place -- who might or might not know the details of > the original publishing of PL. But as the whole of Marx's discussion makes > clear (and subsequent history emphasizes), this distinction of productive > and unproductive labor is something of a mare's nest. Probably there is not > a lot of room for humor in discussing such a topic.
Yes, this has taken a funny turn. I didn't realize that Louis' quote was from the Master himself -- though of course I should have recognized it -- and it tweaked a perennial pet peeve of mine, quite unpolitical in character, namely people's tendency to provide more information than they need to. E.g. 'Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, France.' Well, where else would it be? Paris, Kentucky? Not even a tempest in a teapot, in other words. Of course I agree that 'essentializing' the difference between productive and unproductive labor is a fairly futile undertaking. Best, MJS _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
