[Marxism] Immaterial labor

[Charles Brown]

Mehmet Cagatay


 Since the production of services results in no
material and durable good, we define the labor involved in this
production
as immaterial labor-that is, labor that produces an immaterial good,
such
as a service, a cultural product, knowledge, or communication."

^^^^^

CB: Isn't it more precise to say that services result less in the
production of material _objects_ ? The services activities that are
the
service commodities still exist in the material world.  So do the
cultural products, knowledge and communication exist in the material
world. They just don't coalesce as much in material objects as goods
production.

So , "Non-object producing labor" instead of "immaterial labor".



Charles

^^^^^^^^

CB: Predominantly mental labor is still material labor.