Comments on: Time And The Revolutionary Imagination http://kafila.org/2007/08/07/time-and-the-revolutionary-imagination/ media | politics | dissent Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thalmann P. Pereira http://kafila.org/2007/08/07/time-and-the-revolutionary-imagination/#comment-1814 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:00:02 +0000 http://www.kafila.org/2007/08/07/time-and-the-revolutionary-imagination/#comment-1814 Excellent insights.

The “Non-Revolutionary times” require a strategy of digging in.

But is capitalism itself “homogenous” or uniquely-crystallized in time? Consider, when one wage negotiation goes on in one industry, the other industries already have their variously timed long-term wage settlements. A sort of merry-go-round in which one trade unionist can effectively work all 365 days negotiating one new wage settlement for one industry, each new day, for the next three or four or five years, before revisiting the first one for its fresh settlement.

Not only does it imply that the working class is heterogenous in the time-dimension, but also that capitalism itself is heterogenous in the time dimension.

Unlike a purely agricultural economy, where, for a given climatic region, the season homogenises the landlords as well as the peasants, both in their economic and non-economic aspects.

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