ABSTRACT
The condition of post-Marxist Man is that the meaning Marx read in historical development remains the only meaning that development can have, yet people must pursue this meaning independently of the existence of a social class capable of realizing it. Hence the supreme importance Marxist authors attribute to re-professionalized multi-skilled workers, responsible for sovereign and complex tasks. The only non-economic, post-economic goals capable of giving meaning and value to savings in time and labour are ones individuals must discover within themselves. No historical necessity imposes on the reflexive revolution which the defining of these goals implies. Political action can only be successful if it is able to: create majorities' by bringing together groups which have no definite social anchorage. Occupational skills provide neither the references nor the criteria which would enable people to give meaning to the world, direct its course of events and find their own direction within it.
