Capitalist labour cannot serve as the universal model for society’s material reproduction

Evidence

Could the labour process that had developed under capitalist conditions be seen as the paradigmatic model for the material reproduction of society? Did it really represent labour as such, freed of all cultural masks, without qualificationor was it only a distorted form of labour? — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 607

Categorization

• QUESTION: How would Habermas’s theory of epistemic interests survive if capitalist labour is a historically distorted rather than paradigmatic form?
• XREF: connects to: Capitalist labor is external to workers, denying rather than affirming them — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 722; Capitalism preserving unfree labor is a deviant historical case; Capitalism blocks, rather than creates, collective capacity to produce and enjoy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1861
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capitalist labor is external to workers, denying rather than affirming them — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 722; Capitalism preserving unfree labor is a deviant historical case; Capitalism blocks, rather than creates, collective capacity to produce and enjoy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1861

Broader Connections

• Capitalism preserving unfree labor is a deviant historical case #complicates (0.75)