The IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has posted an article responding to Hermann Lueer’s critique of the IDA’s article on how private reproductive labour can be socialized in a communist society.
A summary of the response can be found below:
Around eight weeks ago, Hermann Lueer published a critique of our text on the socialization of private reproductive labor. His article, titled “Social versus Private Reproductive Labor,” accuses us of reducing the Marxist calculation of labor time to absurdity. The starting point of this critique is our consideration of how private reproductive labor—especially in the area of child-rearing, but also in domestic care and caregiving more broadly—could be incorporated into the calculation of labor time.
We respond to him with a text, which is (only available in German) here.
You can read the original article by the IDA in English here and in German here, Herman Lueer’s critique here and the IDA’s response to Lueer’s critique in English here and in German here.