> Yes, it is, if it involves net surplus value transfer
> under coercive conditions (hereassummed in the miserty
> bit). When he cared about these thinggs, Roemer used
> to say taht this kind of example showed that
> exploitation is not the problem with capitalism; the
> problem is inequality -- thar the conditions are
> coercive. jks
I'm pretty sure Marx himself saw that, though I don't have the passage I'm thinking of handy.
Not that this is directly related, but a general question for the list: in what respects do you think the capitalist Western European social democracies differ from a realizable ideal socio-political order?
-- Luke