[lbo-talk] Marx and justice

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 26 09:17:23 PDT 2007


On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


> Yet the Golden Rule seems realized in the free market, not
> contravened.

In a really really perverse way: the "value" of a human is what it takes to get him or her through the factory gate tomorrow morning. Wouldn't anyone with heart read that and admire the cleverness of the "proof" that labor trades at its value, and be horrified by a system that defines things that way?

I can understand the impulse to avoid a moralizing politics; there's nothing more grating than hearing Helen Caldicott go on about "the children." But you can get carried away with being scientific too.

Doug



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