Nothing outside the laboured text

 There is no vantage point from which labour could be seen, under present conditions, as simple immediacy. 

The strict neutrality of Tetler’s exposition contributes to the book’s force: he does not require one to agree with any political attitude toward labour; he requires only that one follow the conceptual trail from the form of value to the appearance of social power. 

The conclusion is plain. Any direct affirmation of labour, qua labour, will be a displaced affirmation of the very social mediation that requires critique. This is not a polemical flourish; it is the mechanical consequence of the categories.