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Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’ (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Just because Marx gave a name to "an ownership class that undercompensates labor and pockets the spoils" doesn't mean that condition didn't or doesn't exist.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Marx is one of a long string of 'experts' that don't value work that isn't obviously the result of working with hands. Mind work is very important

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    You are deeply misinformed or perhaps intentionally misleading re: your characterization of Marx's ideas. Marx's theories on mental labor appear in his earliest works, and continue through his later, more developed ones:

    labour-power or capacity for labour is to be understood the aggregate of those mental and physical capabilities existing in a human being, which he exercises whenever he produces a use-value of any description.

    Capital V1, chapter 6 -- where Marx defines labor power

    Your characterization of Marx's ideas, that he is creating artificial divisions between different kinds of labor, is in fact a tendency of capitalism that Marx identified and criticized at great length.

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