[lbo-talk] exploitation of pro-athletes was Re: Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[Dennis Claxton]

At 02:04 PM 6/19/2009, joseph noonan wrote:


>With no admission fees, or marketing, or stadia, etc, etc, there is 
>no surplus value to extract, no?  I mean, you are comparing a 
>pre-capitalist relation with a capitalist one, aren't you?

There was a time when you paid admission but there were no stadia.  I 
guess I'm saying once upon a time baseball was a handicraft.