From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 08:31:40 EDT
> What is > striking about the 'value is only value' after 'sale', school (apart from > clearly reflecting a shop keeper mentality) is that it seems to separate > the concept of value from that of exploitation in the workplace. Really > quite striking! Value as capital is wealth extorted from an imprisoned > class, and to regard the value relation as non existant before the > individual sale or sales - ie not to assume ( like our friends the astute > accountants must do) that the 'business ' is 'ongoing' at any point of > appraisal - seems to me to be quite, let us say, 'odd'. Paul B: It is your reasoning above which I find to be quite odd. To say that value is actualized in exchange can not in any conceivable way be taken as a denial of class exploitation. To begin with, let us remember that the actual presence of exploitation of the working class requires exchange, i.e. the sale of the commodity labour-power, _before_ that exploitation commences. Indeed, it is a precondition for exploitation. To say that value is actualized in exchange is not a separation of the concept of value from exploitation: rather, it is a _linking_ of value to use-value and the value-form. In solidarity, Jerry
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