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 (in German) that can be downloaded here.