This essay is concerned with Karl Korsch’s account of labour, developed throughout his whole political and intellectual trajectory. Since his texts from 1912, Korsch tackled the topic of labour as crucial for the concrete elaboration of what the ‘socialisation of the means of production’ could mean. Answering this question requires facing the crossroad between direct and indirect forms of socialisation and workers’ political power. In Korsch, the notion of socialisation is thoroughly explored via that of labour, which is understood as the condition of possibility of any production. Moreover, his progressive understanding of this concept sheds lights onto the complexification of the joint problems of ownership and socialisation, even within the working class.
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Chapter Title
Karl Korsch
Authors
Giorgio Cesarale
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.96
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919