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This is the context in which Marx’s analysis of ‘free’, or ‘disposable’, time – both within and without capitalism – must be situated. Marx consistently equates this time – particularly ‘disposable time’ – with wealth itself: ‘the whole development of wealth rests on the creation of disposable time’¹³⁴, and more decisively: ‘wealth is disposable time and nothing more.’¹³⁵

¹³² Osborne, ‘A sudden topicality: Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis’, 21.

¹³³ Haver, ‘For a Communist Ontology’, 117.

¹³⁴ Marx, Grundrisse, 398.

¹³⁵ This formulation of wealth first appears in the Grundrisse (ibid. 397), and is elaborated on in Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value, Part 3 [1861-63], trans. Jack Cohen (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1972), 255-57. This formulation is not Marx’s: it comes from an anonymous 1821 London pamphlet entitled The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties.

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