damn_jehu's scratchpad

Here's the problem with Postone: literally, there's no category in Marx's framework called "superfluous labor time". There's only "socially necessary labor time" and "surplus labor time". This new category only appears, if at all, implicitly as labor time that cannot create value for purposes of capitalist accumulation. But on the premises of the normal operation of the mode of production such a condition is not given.