
056 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 2
General Intellect Unit
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The Importance of Labor Time Efficiency in the First Phase of Communistism
I just don't buy that argument like I think we're quite productive as a capitalist economy right now if anything like you could reduce large amounts of production in sectors there are whole sectors that would shut down massively wasteful sectors. If recovering the metabolism between nature and humanity that has been broken in capitalism then planning based on socially necessary labor time is in priority, he says. We should be demobilizing mostly economy instead of doing a boy meets tractor fucking love story of productivity according to him. He also argues that Marxian communism pursues the eventual abolition of labor indeed the historical mission of this planning expires with the transition to the develop phase of Marxian communism.
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