[lbo-talk] The State and Capitalism

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Mar 11 06:51:35 PDT 2008



>>> Lew <wsm_mod at yahoo.co.uk> 03/11/2008 3:53 AM >>>
Dmytri Kleiner wrote:


> Marx agrees that money and exchange play a role in a
> transitional society

No, he doesn't:

"Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means

of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value

of these products, as a material quality possessed by them, since now,

in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in

an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor." (Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme) <http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm>

-- Lew

^^^^ CB: Does this passage refer to the _transitional_ phase or the fully communist phase ?



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