[OPE-L:2131] RE: Re: markets and reproduction

From: P.J.Wells@open.ac.uk
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 05:40:02 EST


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Paul C wrote:

> There is some possibility within agriculture of having units of production
> which continue to produce commodities but do not engender captialist
> relations - collective farms. They differ from other commodity producing
> units in the following fashion:
> 1. their major productive input - land - is not a commodity, and cannot
> be purchased of sold.
> 2. there is a large measure of internal self sufficiency - many of the
> inputs
> used are grown locally - fodder etc.
> 3. the participation in labout is hereditary rather than flexible, which
> inhibits
> the formation of wage relations.
>
        Hereditary?!

        Julian



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