A universal history of contingency -
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Unlike "concrete labor", which is defined as the specific form labor takes in this or that trade performed by this or that individual and thus stands in nearly static opposition to abstract labor, "living labor" is only occasionally named by Marx as another way of understanding the flexibility and force of labor, as antagonistic force (for a more detailed discussion of "living labor," and its role in Marx's thought, see chapter 2 of Read 2003).
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Jason Read is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine.He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present, as well as journal articles published in Rethinking Marxism, Pli, and Crossings.Email: Jasondavidread@yahoo.com