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[Gordon Fitch]

Curtiss Leung:
> ... 
> If, as the man says, we need a return to the critique
> of political economy, is he being fair or even
> accurate when he characterizes Marx as proposing that
> surplus-value be eliminated in favor of unconstrained
> expanding productivity?  I thought that when the
> condition where "From each according to his abilities,
> to each according to his needs" obtains, accumulation
> and surplus value would still exist -- BUT that there
> would be no owners of capital distinct from the
> society as a whole.  In other words, M->C->M' where M'
> > M would still hold, but the surplus (M' - M) would
> be distributed...well, however the hell people felt
> like.  And people could, for example, decide that M' =
> M or even M' < M  for a while.
> ...

What would be the point of the surplus?  If people had enough
(their "needs" in the formula), then what would they continue
to labor for?  Labor itself?  This is not a rhetorical question.

Gordon