Goodwill related to prostitution is one of the rare cases where the Italian Penal Code uses the term exploitation . The exploitation of prostitution (minors in this case) is a crime, the exploitation of labor not. Not surprisingly, since the intended use as extraction of surplus labor and then the realization of surplus forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.
Yet it is the intensification of exploitation that a significant part - though not the majority - the FIAT workers said no. Less pauses, rhythms more intense, more rounds, is one of the most extraordinary ways for companies to increase the added value. E ' the method based on the extraction of absolute surplus value - Marx taught - which faces limits Daily working hours in physiological media and biological capacities of resistance of the workers, and that for this goes to another method, based on the introduction of technological innovations to increase the productive power of labor, which Marx defines as relative surplus value . In times of crisis like this business, pending the introduction of the first to imitate or other new technologies in production processes or products, they return to the method of absolute surplus value to increase the exploitation that, in the desires of the capitalist, should be limitless .
The class-conscious workers and union members feel every day at any latitude to resist exploitation, and sometimes they succeed and sometimes not, but usually what they do, the materiality of what happens in the factory, is removed from public political discourse. The exploitation of labor is not seen, and it is better that we speak as little as possible, the exploitation of prostitution is sometimes seen, but even then you'd better not see. Unless remain in the background, like any removed.
Who enjoys the fruits of the exploitation of labor talks, but attributing that characteristic and can be described as an entrepreneur, manager, in some capital cases, but never exploitative. It is not right. Now, it happens that a former capitalist became chairman of the board is facing charges of prostitution (minors) and on time, commentators are divided between those who argue the legality of private behavior, of course, that not to be deemed offenses, and those who criticism from various points of view, ethical, legal, opportunity, security. Ida Dominjanni, the Manifesto calls from time to consider this matter from a different perspective, arguing that (I say in my own words) behaviors such as those attributed to Prime Minister on this and other events should be considered a full expression of a political dimension and not only moral or criminal capitalism. The dark side of power is expressed in the father-master (the sovereign), which embodies a lawless enjoyment whose counterpart (the - shall we say - opposition) is not able to bring nothing but misery to a law (the order ) without enjoyment.
I agree with this approach, which I would only add a few thoughts about this last (?) Episode of the Italian fiction. When the leader of the Democratic Party says that an underage girl should not go to school and attend banquets organized by the old rich, maintains a position of apparent common sense, except for one small detail: underage girls and boys should certainly go to school, but in the morning. The difference seems significant, because in contrast to the rich do not partying with old parties with their peers (enjoyment), but the duty to school (once again, law and order).
The face of capitalism in its decadent phase (very decadent, the smell of rotten start to feel) you exhibition appears on the ground of the movement and distribution of goods. Producers of goods (the exploited) is not are considered if not as consumers, citizens who can produce ideas and preferences differ only in the ways by which the goods they produce are split and then consumed. We can therefore ashamed of, mostly so moralistic, exploitation (at the time alleged) prostitution or deride the idea of \u200b\u200bultra-trash "party" in which wealthy older men deceive themselves through the money to hold on that power of seduction female body (young), which is the old object of desire.
Nothing particularly new nor uplifting, it is just to add that this (sad) show the desire of enjoyment without limits is made possible by the unlimited exploitation of the bodies at work. Without that,
seems to me to reaffirm the validity of - rather than deny it - the observation that permeates the law of value and subjecting himself to the whole human life. We can speak of biopolitics from its recognition of the validity of capitalist exploitation, the more so because in a crisis, is forced to accompany the modern breed of relative surplus value extraction with the old social extension of the workday.
can enjoy in different ways exploitation, but in any case you have to extract surplus labor to the workers. It 'may not enjoy it in a certain way, but not to exploit the work, indeed.
Maurizio Donato, January 18, 2011
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