> "… in my presentation, capital profit is not 'merely a deduction or
> "robbery" on the labourer'. On the contrary, I present the capitalist as the
> necessary functionary of capitalist production and show very extensively
> that he does not only 'deduct' or 'rob', but forces the production of
> surplus value, therefore the deducting only helps to produce; furthermore, I
> show in detail that even if in the exchange of commodities only equivalents
> were exchanged, the capitalist - as soon as he pays the labourer the real
> value of his labour-power - would secure with full rights, i.e. the rights
> corresponding to that mode of production, surplus value."
> (Marx, "Notes on Adolph Wagner," quoted in Gáspár Miklós Tamás: "Telling the
> truth about class")
>
> Moral criticism of the Koch brothers is anti-Marxist.
>
> Carrol
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There is a legitimate distinction between non-Marxist and anti-Marxist arguments regarding profits, investment, coercion, causality etc. Just as there are legitimate critiques of the same that eschew moral discourse altogether.
Ian