Comment on Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’

• bluGill@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never said it wasn't. I don't think he did either.

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  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Liberals will not read Capital and then say Marx didn’t consider something he explicitly covered in Capital.

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  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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