[lbo-talk] Unproductive labor

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Feb 13 10:24:11 PST 2008



>>> "Tahir Wood" But to say
that there is no meaningful distinction has some pretty weird implications for non-capitalists. It means, for example, that a fortune teller's one hour of labour is equally productive to that of an engineer or a bicklayer or a train driver.

^^^^ CB: In _Capital_, at some point, Marx uses a Bible as an example of a commodity, i.e. it has exchange-value and therefore its production produces. Marx, the author of the thesis here, says it doesn't make any difference whether the source of use of a use-value is "fancy" or the stomach.



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