Disposable time, surplus population, and the limitation of the hours of labour
Disposable time, surplus population, and the limitation of the hours of labour I’m on at 5:35 of the video. A little hoarse at 4 a.m.!
(Hence the correctness of the theory of surplus population and surplus capital…)
(Hence the correctness of the theory of surplus population and surplus capital…) Marx mentioned, “the theory of surplus population and surplus capital,” parenthetically, in the Grundrisse and “surplus population and surplus capital” in his 1862-63 draft of Capital. Although it isn’t certain what theory exactly he was referring to, the phrase reappears, in reverse order, in chapter 15, […]
Necessary labour. Surplus labour. Surplus population. Surplus capital. (The Return of “Disposable People”)
This post will be a bit of a backtrack. While going through my notes for chapter 7 of Theories of Surplus Value, I discovered a printout of a page from the Grundrisse that I had overlooked when writing the post on that book. Although it does not contain the term socially necessary labour time, the two and a half […]