Subject and Counter-Subject
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 93-102
ISSN: 1465-4466
A symposium paper on Moishe Postone's Time, Labor and Social Domination that focuses on two of the book's core assertions. First is Postone's claim that capital is the self-constituted "Subject" of our era, with "Subject" & its impetus understood in the Hegelian sense, a point that is thoroughly persuasive. Second is Postone's insistence that the necessary critique not be based in the social perspective of the proletariat, which is only half as convincing. Thus, while all of his claims about the necessity of "labor" as a category for the existing social whole are valid, none of them rule out the proletariat from shaping itself counter to capital, & from active resistance to wage slavery. 15 References. K. Coddon
