I guess work is like an atom -- the closer you try to look at it, the blurrier it gets. Seems to be a pattern with many categories.
And in the broadest possible sense, I suppose what prostitutes do for a living, what dancers in the same neighborhood do for a living, with the exchange of money, somehow contributes to the state of that neighborhood, what other goods (and bads) are sold there, and to the response of the surrounding neighborhoods and city, what social workers and police do, thus somehow serving social relations of production, even if the production results only in the next generation of kids, pimps, and hookers...
Hmmmm...
I meant to write "even if the production results only in the next generation of citizens", but that would confuse what hookers do with what teachers do, and I'm not sure Phillip would appreciate that. Nor would I, though sometimes that is what I feel like.
I DID think it strange that Leont'ev had not once referenced Ilyenkov, don't you?
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