POL 4275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Autonomism, Primitive Communism, Frankfurt School

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The Problem With Work
Chapter One:
Work Society
What is work?
Waged, unwaged
Work Ethic
What is the value of work?
Instrumentally, non-instrumentally (intrinsically)
Five Autonomies
Chapter Two:
“Productivism”
A critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labor
1) Socialist Modernization
Soviet Communism, Lenin, etc.
Communism, as distinct from Marxism (philosophical), is an attempt to
put into practice a specific institutional and political arrangement trying
to rectify the problem
Society for and by workers
“Modern” vs “primitive” communism
Goal: more work
2) Socialist Humanism
E Fromm, Frankfurt School
Alienation through modernization
“Fordism” - division of labor
Associated with Henry Ford, assembly line, efficiency
Alienation of workers from the product of their labor
(91)
Goal: better work
3) Autonomist Marxism
Self-valorization, antagonism, separation
Creation of small-scale worlds/collective works to create new types of
work/alternative work and non-work
Italy
Goal: less work
Kathi Weeks looks to #3 since Autonomists call into question the value of work
and don’t think it’s the most important thing in the world like #1 & 2
Chapter Three: (answers “what does less work mean?”)
Wages for Housework
1970s feminism
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A critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labor. Communism, as distinct from marxism (philosophical), is an attempt to put into practice a specific institutional and political arrangement trying to rectify the problem. Associated with henry ford, assembly line, efficiency. Alienation of workers from the product of their labor. Creation of small-scale worlds/collective works to create new types of work/alternative work and non-work. Kathi weeks looks to #3 since autonomists call into question the value of work and don"t think it"s the most important thing in the world like #1 & 2. Chapter three: (answers what does less work mean? ) Waged work is only a small part of us labor; unpaid work is the basis for this to be possible. Weeks thinks this was an important provocation since it tried to challenged work on a broad scale, even though it was unsuccessful.

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