Cool explanation of proletarian vs non-proletarian labor, and productive vs non-productive labor, from a classical Marxist view.

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    The idea that service workers aren't "proletarian" is so ridiculous that it makes me mad someone spent actually time making a video to refute it.

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    A Marxist economist from Cambridge wrote a good summary of how services fit into Marxist theory (summary: it's not a useful category for Marx)

    https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/971d2c5b-b98d-4b0c-9934-03265a752041