Julio Huato wrote:
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> What is productive from the viewpoint of capital is not necessarily
> what is productive from the viewpoint of working people under
> capitalism -- let alone from the viewpoint of free associated
> producers. Furthermore, what is productive for individual capitals is
> not necessarily what is productive for capital as a whole.
You don't seem to know what a definition of a technical term is. What your are writing here may be corect, it may be wrong, but in either case it has nothing to do with understanding Marx's Critique of Political Economy. "Productive Labor" is a technical term there, and it is _ddefined_ by Marx in the sense it bears in his theoretical work. Your post can't be relevant to that since you want to argue with Marx not on reality but on how he uses words.
Carrol