Einstein on Marx

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Tue Jul 13 15:43:31 PDT 1999


At 14:02 13/07/99 -0400, Fabian Balardini wrote:


>
>I just got done re-reading Einstein's famous "Why Socialism" which can be
found at:
>
>http://proxy-mail.mailcity.lycos.com/bin/redirector.cgi?http://come.to/luta

I could not find it there in English but

I see the 1949 edition published by Monthly Review is at

http://webmap.missouri.edu/htmlized/einstein.html


>In so far as the labor contract is "free," what the worker receives is
determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs.
>

Yes, he has grasped the argument carefully.

Chris Burford



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