Quote from André Gorz
«We have no words to speak about our oppression, our distress, our bitterness, and our revolt against the exhaustion, the stupidity, the monotony, the lack of meaning of our work and of our life, against the contempt in which our work is held; against the despotic hierarchy of the factory, against a society in which we remain the underdogs and in
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My bet is that the quote is from very early Gorz - by the time he wrote Critique of Economic Reason and Paths to Paradise he had dispensed with this old orthodox marxism that applied crude categories like 'the working class' versus 'the ruling class.' He also said that a lot of his early writings were rubbish - I bet he would have included this on that list! Gorz's sophisticated analysis after 1988 has, however, stood the test of time.
Oh, and look out for the French transation of Moishe Postone's 'Time, Labor and Social Domination' which is out in January 2009 - Postone comes highly recommended by Andre Gorz.
Best wishes,
Sean Delaney, www.principiadialectica.co.uk
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I'll look into this when I'll have a little more time. But just as a quick question, is Postone postmodern?
And I wonder, how did you stumble on this blog, since it is rather small? Are you, in some way, monitoring entries on Gorz ;)?
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