Sarah Allen

Marx in Jargon
Keston Sutherland
Gallerte

...It is of course a materialist reemphasis of the physical human experience at the origin of exchange value,that is, a labour theory of value; at the same time, a gruesome satirical echo of the allegorical account of abstract human labor as Gallerte. The living hands, brains, muscles and nerves of the wage labourer are mere "animal substances," ingredients at the feast of the capitalist. The capitalist in turn is the great devourer of this undifferentiated human labour. He is not an individual, as Marx often says, but is "a mere embodiment of capital"(MA: 330), which makes him not just the oppressor of the workers in theory and in the practice, but also gives him a specific role in Marx's allegorical satire on consumption. The capitalist is roughly the industrial processing of the workers in reverse. The worker who starts out a real body and brain is reduced to Gallerte through submission to capitalist wage labour; and the capitalist who is in essence nothing but capital itself nonetheless assumes in his interactions with human beings the local habitation of a body and the name of an individual. This is what the worker and the capitalist are in Marx's allegorical satire consumption, but Marx also says that this is what they are in reality, that is, in their "real economic relation" of which all juridical relation "is but the reflex." (MA: 96).

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