Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, given those
> ammendments, Marx did see something
> like the "iron law of wages" as operative
> under capitalism, and like Ricardo he
> percieved a linkage between this law and
> free trade.
>
The phrase itself is misleading, especially considering Marx's savage attack on its use in the Gotha Programme, where he calls its use an unprincipled surrender to Lassalle's partisans.
Carrol