Abstract labour and concrete labour refer to a distinction made by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy.
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“Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
Above in the dozing leaves the grinning cat
Quivers forever with his abstract rage....”
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