>>2561257Is
time a specifically capitalist concept?
Is
waste a specifically capitalist concept?
Is
wasting time a specifically capitalist concept?
No.
Is
socially necessary labor time a specifically capitalist concept?
No, only some specifics of the role it plays in capitalism.
Is
value in the Marxist sense a specifically capitalist concept?
Quantitatively speaking, capitalism's value of something is equal to its socially necessary labor time. So some people use these terms interchangeably no matter the context, so they make statements like this:
Value will play another role in socialism. Others use value as the name of the role socially necessary labor time plays in capitalism, so they say:
Value will disappear.For over a century, Marxists have unintentionally trolled themselves on this issue due to the vagueness of their language.
Marxists are hostile to defining terms because they believe doing conceptual
version freeze makes them unable to think about how things develop and change. But just like one can make an animation from still frames, one can make a description of a changing and evolving system using snapshots; all you have to do is come up with more names, and this can be as simple as adding another word to a name to show how one frame is related to another, like "early" & "middle" & "final", or just number them. In theory, people having a dialogue can get by without a battery of definitions and meticulous name-tagging by paying attention to context. In practice, they don't have an attention window of necessary size for even a long monologue.
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