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Gordon Fitch
gcf at panix.com
Thu Apr 13 17:43:24 PDT 2000
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
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