L.A.P.
20th December 2013, 20:33
http://libcom.org/history/introducing-processed-world
Came across it on libcom. It was a short lived magazine based in the Bay Area written by radical office workers in that wonderful time of the 80's when the financial sector was becoming the hot thing for all the uni students to get into after "de-industrialization". These discontented post-grads were temps who still considered themselves artists, photographers, philosophers, etc. and rejected the Corporate Life. I think efforts like these that try to formulate a critique of capitalism that goes past the antagonism between the urban proletariat and industrialists are necessary for the present conditions. Western Marxists, especially of North America, should look more into the struggle of office workers and, more so, service workers as they constitute most of the working class in the West/North America now.
there has to be someone on RevLeft who knows of this publication.
Came across it on libcom. It was a short lived magazine based in the Bay Area written by radical office workers in that wonderful time of the 80's when the financial sector was becoming the hot thing for all the uni students to get into after "de-industrialization". These discontented post-grads were temps who still considered themselves artists, photographers, philosophers, etc. and rejected the Corporate Life. I think efforts like these that try to formulate a critique of capitalism that goes past the antagonism between the urban proletariat and industrialists are necessary for the present conditions. Western Marxists, especially of North America, should look more into the struggle of office workers and, more so, service workers as they constitute most of the working class in the West/North America now.
there has to be someone on RevLeft who knows of this publication.