OK, John, Thanks for responding with your rejection of my claim that "If a machine doesn't produce any output, it can't transfer value to that output"? But what about my other question? -- it isn't the same question at all: : do you agree or disagree that "in Marx's theory, what : allows the value of a means of production to be preserved (by being : transferred) is that it is used in production. If the same kind of item : is *not* used in production, but depreciates through aging (a machine is : idled in a slump, and rusts out), its value is lost along with its : use-value"? Actually, there are two questions here. You might want to deal with them separately. Ciao, Andrew
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