[lbo-talk] Exploitation

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> 
> Huh? Methinks Marx condemned not the transfer of
> surplus value (he mentioned
> that in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, if
> memory serves, but I  do not
> have the text handy, so correct me if I am wrong) -
> for quite frankly such
> transfer is unavoidable in any complex society. 
> What he condemned, imho,
> was that the method of surplus extraction - i.e.
> making workers work longer
> than it was necessary to reproduce their labour
> power what was the basis of
> its exchange value i.e. wages - prevented them from
> attaining their full
> human potential - the fishing in the morning and
> writing poetry in th
> evening instead of working in the satanic mills 16+
> hours a day.  Marx was a
> closet Aristotelian, hence the concept of good as
> the full attainment of the
> potential  and evil as falling short of that
> attainment (that was the
> _Nicomachean Ethics_ no?  or was it _Politics_? )

We agree, then.

.
> 
> Ergo, capitalism is wrong not because it does not
> pay workers "full" wages,
> but because it uses them in a way that makes them
> lose their human potential
> and humanity. 

Yes, in large part

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