[OPE-L:3199] Re: Re: Simple Commodity Production

From: Ajit Sinha (ajitsinha@lbsnaa.ernet.in)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 05:00:54 EDT


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Paul Zarembka wrote:

> Ajit Sinha <ajitsinha@lbsnaa.ernet.in> said, on 05/13/00 at 03:20 PM,
> replying to Fred:
>
> >>... there are many more
> >> passages that could be presented in which Marx clearly states that the
> >> commodity he starts with is the product of capitalist production.
> >> Here is one more from "Notes on Wagner":
> >>
> >> "What I start out from is the simplest social form in which the
> >> labor-product is presented in CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY."
> >>
> >> Marx did not analyze the commodity in Chapter 1 "independent of any
> >> specific historical mode of production."
>
> >Fred, the "simplest social form in which the labor-product is presented
> >in CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY" is the relation between the buyer and a seller
> >on equal footing. This relationship could exist independent of
> >capital-labor production relation. To a large extent I simply don't
> >understand what is the import of your question. As I have suggested that
> >Marx's logical point of beginning the argument with commodity relation
> >was to use it for analyzing the capital-labor relation as a relation
> >between the seller of a commodity 'labor-power' and the buyer of the
> >commodity the capitalist. My point has been that this strategy creates
> >problem for Marx's problematic of exploitation. ...
>
> "Contemporary society" IS a society with the capital--wage labor relation,
> not a society in which the buyer and seller "COULD exist independent of
> capital-labor production relation". Marx's passage is supportive of Fred
> rather than Ajit.
>
> Paul Z.

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Paul, who is denying that the "contemporary society" means capitalist society.
However, the simplest social form in which the labor product is presented, is
the relationship between a buyer and a seller. This relationship could exist
independent of capital-labor relation. Cheers, ajit sinha



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