仅从生产视角看待消费过程的局限性——日本“服务劳动的生产性论战”的最新进展

The Limitation of Productive Scope for Theorizing Consummation Process in Political Economy

战后,日本学界有关'服务业的本质是什么'的争论一直持续至今。最近有一种观点认为,在消费领域的雇佣劳动是生产劳动力的劳动。然而,认为服务业的产品是'人类的劳动能力'的这种想法并不新鲜,它早就为庸俗经济学家(西尼尔、施托尔希)所提及。本文将从3个方面批判这种把消费的问题局限于生产视角的'新观点'在政治经济学上的不合理之处,并依据《哥达纲领批判》,指出'服务产业'论的核心应该在资本对社会共同消费领域的统制中去寻找。资本对消费过程的统制由两个范畴构成:其一是'消费手段',其二是'消费劳动'。前者对资本家而言是固定资本,而后者则是流动资本。

The latest development of the Service-Labour Debate in Japan is now uniquely targeting the consumptive labour for its productive nature in producing and creating other people’s labour-power.Such a common and false notion is surrounded by at least three irrationalities.And it is getting clear now that the service industry makes the consumptive labour and its function more independent.However,with above-cited criticism in mind,it is also now clear that the idea and assumption of consumptive labour being materially value-creating and the service sector becoming value-forming are utterly nonsense.