[ICTs-and-Society] Universal labor or General Labor

[Christian Fuchs]

Hello Jakob,

Chris Arthur: 
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00201747808601851#.Ue3SyFMWH0c

In GDR Marxist philosophy, Hubert Laitko and Peter Ruben had works 
called "Wissenschaft als allgemeine Arbeit" - "Science as general labour".
http://www.annette-schlemm.de/project/wissenschaft.htm
http://www.peter-ruben.de/frames/files/Grundlagen/Ruben%20-%20Wissenschaft%20als%20allgemeine%20Arbeit.pdf
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Laitko

I do not think these GDR works have been translated because such 
philosophy has been put on the trash heap of history by the circumstance 
that many GDR professors lost their jobs after 1990 and that these jobs 
were then colonized by Western-Germans...

Somebody should philosophically revisist such things and see what we can 
make of it for a critical/Marxist political economy of the media today...

Best, Christian


On 22/07/2013 21:07, Jakob Rigi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I work on a concept tentatively called universal or general labor. The
> concept is borrowed from Marx, Capital vol.3, p, 199, the English
> translation, Penguin edition. Christian (Fuchs) advised my that general
> labor might be a better translation for what the English translator had
> translated as universal labor. Indeed, the concept of general labor is
> used in Grundrisse. But the concept of universal labor is also used in
> the Theories of Surplus Value, Part i. In all these three cases Marx
> mentions the concept, or concepts, in passing and does not elaborate on
> them.
>
> DO YOU KNOW WORKS BY MARX, MARXISTS, OR ANY ONE WHICH USE THESE TWO
> CONCEPTS. IF YES, I WILL BE REALLY INDEBTED IF YOU POST THE REFERENCES.
>
> In this stage I am interested in any usage of these concepts.
>
> All the best
>
> Jakob Rigi
>
>
>
>
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