[lbo-talk] value form

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Thu Sep 28 06:01:01 PDT 2006


Again I ask: "what's wrong with producing commodities?"

Boddi

^^^ CB: It's ok if it's socially , throughly planned ,not almost all commodity producers isolated from each other producing them with the aim of maximizing their own, individual private wealth,indifferent to the production and consumption of society as a whole. But then this is not really a "commodity", because commodities have always been produced in private isolation from the production of other commodities.

Socialism will have a division of labor and exchange between the divisions. It won't be that each individual produces self-sufficiently to meet their entire personal kit of needs. But the different divisions and sectors of production will be consciously and directly coordinated and planned. There will be "socialist commodities" , but we'll need a new name because this lacks a fundamental characteristic of the historically derived commodity.



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