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Luc Ferry: "Towards the abolition of work?"

4/5/2023, 6:44:08 PM


CHRONICLE - Even if the current of the "critical theory of value" coming from Germany is still marginal, it is gaining ground every year.

Like the

"old mole"

of which Marx spoke, a radical critique of work is making its way underground, sometimes violently, in the left of the left, among the collapsologists and the “decreasingists”.

It not only animates actions such as those observed in Sainte-Soline, but in a fortunately more calm way, the millions of people who viscerally reject any extension of working hours.

Even if the current of "critical value theory" from Germany is still marginal, it is gaining ground every year, not only among young people concerned with anti-capitalist radicalism, but also among those who, after the pandemic, have experienced the feeling of "losing their life to gain it",

Born in the 1980s with authors like Robert Kurz, Anselm Jappe, Moïshe Postone or Alastair…

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