Against productivism

Habermas and Gorz

pp. 77-102

in: Lawrence Wilde, Ethical Marxism and its radical critics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Abstract

The early socialists were still confident that the convivial forms of life of freely associated workers would emerge spontaneously from properly organised production processes. Faced with the complexity of developed, functionally differentiated societies, this idea of workers' self-governance had to fail (Jurgen Habermas).¹