Marx's Utopias and Women's Work
Marx's Utopias and Women's Work
This chapter argues that Karl Marx's vision of abundance in the communist utopia only occurred to him as a solution to the necessary labour problem because he failed to consider women's work. However, Marx's solution to his problem is interesting in the sense that it poses the question of how necessary it is for labour to be distributed and what constraints can be imposed on the distribution of work. The chapter suggests that Marx's conception of the dialectic of labour may be used to visualize more concretely who would do women's work in the utopia derived from the dialectic of labour and under what circumstances.
Keywords: women's work, communist utopia, Karl Marx, necessary labour, distribution of labour
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