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WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH THE PEN: POSSIBILITIES OF THE LEFT TODAY
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Author(s):
SATADRU CHATTERJEE
Vol - 6, Issue- 4 ,
Page(s) : 108 - 114
(2015 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
While discussing the ‘reproduction of labor-power’ in his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” Louis Althusser makes a key observation:
Here (in a capitalist regime), unlike the social formations characterized by slavery or serfdom, this reproduction of the skills of labor power tends (this is a tendential law) decreasingly to be provided for ‘on the spot’ (apprenticeship within production itself), but is achieved more and more outside production: by the capitalist education system, and by other instances and institutions. (Althusser, 1971, pp.132)
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