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Cracks and the Crisis of Abstract Labour
Author(s) -
Holloway John
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00781.x
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , politics , dual (grammatical number) , key (lock) , expression (computer science) , political economy , political crisis , sociology , economics , political science , law , art , biology , literature , ecology , geometry , mathematics , computer science , programming language
In this article I suggest that the key to understanding autonomies is the revolt of one form of activity against another. I relate this revolt to Marx's concept of the dual character of labour, and suggest that the rise of autonomist politics should be understood as an expression of the crisis of abstract labour.