Recently, I outlined the importance of theorizing the knowledge economy by focusing on the major shifts in the content of capitalist labor which have driven accumulation during the neoliberal period.
It confounds me why the notion of services or immaterial labour is treated as such a big problem for marxism when the second paragraph of Capital describes a commodity as
„an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference. Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production.”
It confounds me why the notion of services or immaterial labour is treated as such a big problem for marxism when the second paragraph of Capital describes a commodity as
„an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference. Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production.”