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OTHER OBJECTIONS. Here two objections are considered. The first, from a classical Marxist position, is that the proposed economy preserves the division of labour that ▇▇▇▇ identified as one of the causes of alienation. ▇▇▇▇ contrasted creation of objects as an expression of identity through skill and art with the repetition of minute, skilless, and artless tasks that characterises the industrial production of commodities. The second objection is against a classical Marxist assumption that is maintained by Marxist republicanism. This is that ▇▇▇▇ assumes a universal capacity for self-actualisation, yet there is no reason to believe that all do have the species-being ▇▇▇▇ claims they have. Furthermore, and worse, Marxist republicanism assumes the capacity to self-actualise in particular ways, viz. the capacity to exercise the virtues needed for freedom from domination. Marxist-republicanism retains the division of labour for the sake of efficiency, or rather because without it probably not enough of what people need will be produced, or because it will not be produced quickly enough given the minimal production in the economy. The problem is that ▇▇▇▇ identifies the division of labour as one of the most important sources of alienation. What reason is there to choose the end of alienation from our potential republican selves instead of the end of our alienated labour? A Marxist republican division of labour would eliminate all the conditions of alienated labour identified by ▇▇▇▇ bar our alienation from creative self-expression in production. For such republicanism, it is more important to reduce the time used for production to reduce overall alienation than reduce alienation caused by the division of labour. If the reduced time we use in production is alienated to some degree this is a price worth paying. Against more conventional Marxists the Marxist republican has to claim that exercise of the republican virtues is a more central component of the actualisation of our species-being than the exercise of our productive skills independently of an alienating division of labour. Since actualising our republican potential frees us from domination and allows us to more fully self-actualise, then it is more important for self- actualisation than freedom from alienation in the division of labour. As was claimed in chapter 2, maximising our participation in the processes that generate the laws we live by increases our self-actualisation and protects us from domination from others. A M...