Reproductive labor

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:36:32 +0000

The conditions that permit people to exercise their labor power don’t occur naturally; that is, the work force must eat, sleep, replenish lost calories, regenerate their muscles, and eventually replace the members of the workforce who die from sickness and old age. Nor do the conditions of the generalized exercise of labor power reproduce themselves without effort. Lastly, there are social conditions of the labor process that must be reproduced and maintained (for example, a laborer cannot go to work naked due to social convention arising from certain real needs not to be exposed to hot sparks on bare skin, and so forth). Reproductive labor, then, is all labor primarily involved in the historically determined aspects of the production of labor power, in the general labor power of society, and in the social preconditions of the labor-process.

Bourgeois academia

Comrade Editor J. Katsfoter — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:23:58 +0000

The system of social reproduction within the bourgeois republic.

The “academy” encompasses all of capitalist academia. While the “academy” is often depicted by reactionaries as being a stronghold of leftist and anticapitalist thought, in reality the bourgeois academy is the system that assists the ruling class in propagating itself. It teaches members of the ruling class how to behave and informs them how to think. All products of the bourgeois academy should be viewed with extreme caution.

For more, see Althusser.

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Reproductive labor

Bourgeois academia