>From Theories of Surplus Value Volume 1 Progress 1969 Moscow:
"...the use value of labour-power to the capitalist as a capitalist does not consist in its actual use-value, in the usefulness of this particular concrete labour - that it is spinning labour, weaving labour, and so on. He is as little concerned with this as with the use-value of the product of this labour as such, since for the capitalist the product is a commodity( even before its first metamorphisis), not an article of consumption. What interests him in the commodity is that it has more exchange-value than he paid for it, and therefore the use-value of the labour is, for him, that he gets back a greater quantity of labour-time than he has paid out in the form of wages. Included among these productive workers, of course, are all those who contribute in one way or another to the production of the commodity, from the actual operative to the manager or engineer (as distinct from the capitalist)." (pp 156)
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