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[Tapas Ray]

Aarti,

Thank you for the fantastic essays. It is important to remember - or to 
know, because few of us have been told in the first place - that we were 
not always objectified as homo economicus. Here is a quote from Ricoeur 
that appealed to me, and I used it some years ago in a short op-ed piece 
on Lennon: "Humanism ... appears as the reply to the peril of the 
"objectification" of man in work and in consuming." I haven't saved the 
citation, unfortunately, but think it was in his preface to Fallible 
Man. Ellul is also very relevant here.

Anyway, in terms of practice, I suppose the issue is how to marry red 
and green. Some list members have studied Marx, and it would be great to 
hear what they may have to say, because I believe this objectification 
was part of Marx's concerns (correct me if I am wrong). The  marriage 
will involve forcing the big "Marxist" brands, which are deeply embedded 
in this kind of objectification, to think, and if they can't or don't 
want to, simply putting them behind us.

Tapas



Aarti Sethi wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Here is a wonderful essay by Peter Linebaugh on May Day, where he charts 
> the strange byways of history through which a day dedicated to the pagan 
> rejection of labour and labouring, a day which challenged "work" itself, 
> became enshrined eventually as the celebration of the rights of working 
> people. Even as we express our solidarities with labouring people all 
> over the world, lets also recognise the limits of the productivist 
> discourse, and remember that there is a "green" history to May Day as 
> well as the red...
> 
> best
> A
> 
> 
>       //The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of MAY DAY//
> 
> 
> http://www.midnightnotes.org/mayday/author.html
> 
> Do read!
>